Francis Crick
1916 – 2004 English biologist
The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.
- Religion
- An atheist who left a college over its religious requirements and studied consciousness in strictly physical terms.
- Affiliations
- Nobel laureate; Salk Institute. No secret society.
Crick, with James Watson, worked out the double helix structure of DNA, revealing how genetic information is stored and copied. This launched molecular biology and modern genetics. In his later career he turned to studying the biology of consciousness.
Connections
- ally of James Watson — They discovered the DNA double helix together in 1953.
In the timeline
- 1953 The structure of DNA mentioned