Francis Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist who, in 1953, co-authored with James D. Watson the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. In 1962, Wilson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Francis Crick was born in Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England in 1916, and he earned a bachelor's degree in physics from University College London in 1937. The outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies, and he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory during the war. Crick became a theoretical molecular biologist, and, during his graduate school studies, he met James D. Watson, and the two of them studied DNA. He and Watson used Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins' X-ray research on DNA to build the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, and Crick and Watson published a paper on the double helix in 1953. Crick, Watson, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Crick went on to become a professor in California. He died in San Diego, California at the age of 88.
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