Francis Crick

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  • Birthday

    Birthday
    Francis Crick was born in Northampton,England.

  • school

    school
    He grauated from University College,London with a bachelor of science degree in Physics

  • work

    work
    Began PH.D work at strangeway Laboratory with Arthur Hughes

  • Medical

    Medical
    Medical Research Unit at Cavendish Lab. and work with Max Perutz and john Kerdrew on protein structure

  • DNA project

    DNA project
    Partnered with James D. Watson and colleague Maurice Wilkins to expose the structure of DNA.

  • Made a book

    Made a book
    Revealed the structure of DNA. Published this discovery in the April 25 addition of the Journal Nature.

  • Nobel Prize

    Nobel Prize
    Won the Nobel Prize. Best recognized for his work in the discovery of the double helix.

  • Sequence in proteins.

    Sequence in proteins.
    Along with Sydney Brenner, they determined how the sequence of DNA bases would specify the amino acid sequence in proteins.

  • Biology studies

    Biology studies
    Left Cambridge Lab to take a position of Kieckhefer Professor at Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, Cal. He began his project of the study of the brain.

  • death

    death
    He died of cancer.