biography
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Crick, Francis (Harry Compton)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916– )
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| biography:
| Biophysicist, born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, C England, UK. He studied at London and Cambridge, and from 1949 carried on research in molecular biology at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1953, with the help of X-ray diffraction photographs taken by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, he and J D Watson constructed a molecular model of the genetic material DNA. In 1958 he proposed that the DNA determines the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide through a triplet code. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Watson and Wilkins. |
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