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Birth
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on the 8th of June, 1916, at Weston Favell, Northampton, United Kingdom -
Ruth Dodd
Francis Crick Married Ruth Doreen Dodd for seven years, with whom he had a son. Ending their relationship, he divorced her in 1947. -
Born Again
Dr Francis Crick changed his studies from physics to biology, in which he stated 'almost as if one had to be born again' -
Second Marriage
Crick, after his divorce, married Odile Speed (who then became Odile Crick), who he had two daughters with. -
A Friendship's Beginning
One of Crick's influences of his career was his friendship with James Watson. the friendship lead to their structure of the DNA molecule -
Double Helix
Three papers about the molecular structure of DNA being a double helix were published. Crick, with a number of other scientists were part of this revolutionary discovery -
RNA
Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner obtained genetic proof that three bases were read when reading/copying genetic material. -
Nobel Prize
Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and Maurice Wilkins also received it. Rosalind Franklin died before the Nobel Prize was awarded -
Death
F. Crick died from Colon cancer -