Francis Crick was originally a physicist, but he switched to biological research after the Second World War (a transition he compared to being “born again”). Together with Rosalind Franklin and James Watson, Crick played a key role in determining the structure of the DNA molecules that carry the genetic instructions for all living organisms.
Francis Crick IS KNOWN FOR...
Helping to identify the double-helix model of DNA
Making significant discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids
Winning the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins)
Crick’s paternal grandfather, Walter Drawbridge Crick, was an amateur naturalist and a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Walter even had two species of gastropod named after him!
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