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Crick, Francis. Born 8 June 1916.
Born in Northampton, the eldest son of a shoe manufacturer. He wrote:
I knew very little about biology, except in a very general way, 'till I was 30, since my first degree was in physics. It took me a little time to adjust to the rather different way of thinking necessary in biology. It was almost as if one had to be born again.
Within two years of meeting, Watson and Crick had achieved their understanding of the nature of the gene in chemical terms. They brought together the contributions of many workers and deduced the likely structure of DNA.
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- A Visit With Dr. Francis Crick (Access Excellence classic collection): What follows is a transcript of a visit with Dr. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. Dr. Crick offers a fascinating look at the world of science at the time of this important discovery, as well as an equally fascinating glimpse into the thought processes of a brilliant scientist and thinker.
- Crick, Francis Harry Compton: A critical influence in Crick's career was his friendship, beginning in 1951, with J. D. Watson, then a young man of 23, leading in 1953 to the proposal of the double-helical structure for DNA and the replication scheme.
- The Discovery of the Molecular Structure of DNA - The Double Helix: The work of many scientists paved the way for the exploration of DNA. Way back in 1868, almost a century before the Nobel Prize was awarded to Watson, Crick and Wilkins, a young Swiss physician named Friedrich Miescher, isolated something no one had ever seen before from the nuclei of cells. He called the compound nuclein. This is today called nucleic acid, the NA in DNA (deoxyribo-nucleic-acid) and RNA (ribo-nucleic-acid).
- Watson, James Dewey: He soon met Crick and discovered their common interest in solving the DNA structure. They thought it should be possible to correctly guess its structure, ...
- Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick: The discovery of the well-defined patterns led to the deriving of the molecular structure of DNA. Further X-ray studies established the correctness of the Watson-Crick proposal for DNA structure.
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