Francis Crick was born on 8 June 1916 in Northampton. A British molecular biologist and neuroscientist, Crick was the co-discoverer, with James Watson, of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, work done at Cambridge and based on X-ray diffraction images by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. The three men shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. He helped to work out the genetic code, proposed the adaptor hypothesis for transfer RNA and formulated the central dogma of molecular biology. Later he moved to the Salk Institute in California and turned to the study of the brain and consciousness. He originally trained as a physicist.
Before and after
- from 24 April 1916 to 30 April 1916Easter Rising
- 11 May 1916Birth of Camilo José Cela
- 16 May 1916Sykes–Picot Agreement
- from June 1916 to October 1918Arab Revolt
- 8 June 1916Birth of Francis Crick
- from 10 June 1916 to 10 January 1919Siege of Medina
- 1 July 1916Birth of Olivia de Havilland
- 8 July 1916Establishment of Acadia National Park
- 9 July 1916Birth of Edward Heath
More in Science & technology
- 1916General relativity
- 2 November 1920KDKA begins the first commercial radio broadcasts
- 1931Big Bang theory proposed
- 1931Kurt Godel proves his incompleteness theorems
- 1939Discovery of francium
- 18 December 1944Launch of Le Monde
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