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Also Known As Francis Harry Compton Crick
Born June 8, 1916 • Northampton • England
Died July 28, 2004 (aged 88) • San Diego • California
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1975) • Nobel Prize (1962)
Notable Works “Of Molecules and Men”
Subjects Of Study DNA • base • codon • double helix • genetic code

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Francis Crick seated and smiling in front of a chalkboard filled with scientific notations and DNA base pair diagrams at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1962.
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Francis Crick, 1993.
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James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
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Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
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Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist
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A.D. Hershey
American biologist
Kossel, Albrecht
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
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Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
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César Milstein
Argentine-British immunologist
Paul Nurse
Paul Nurse
British scientist
Martin Evans
Martin Evans
British scientist

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