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Francis Crick

1916 - 2004

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Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for understanding DNA structure and functions. Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Crick is the 34th most popular biologist (down from 15th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Biologist.

Francis Crick is most famous for his work with James Watson in discovering the structure of DNA.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Crick ranks 34 out of 1,097. Before him are John Sulston, Richard Dawkins, Luc Montagnier, Maria Sibylla Merian, Albrecht Kossel, and Conrad Gessner. After him are George Smith, Trofim Lysenko, Barbara McClintock, John Edward Gray, Rachel Carson, and Albert Claude.

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Among people born in 1916, Francis Crick ranks 13. Before him are Gregory Peck, Aldo Moro, Gough Whitlam, Elena Ceaușescu, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko. After him are Roald Dahl, Ahmed Ben Bella, João Havelange, Olivia de Havilland, Yehudi Menuhin, and Jean Dausset. Among people deceased in 2004, Francis Crick ranks 12. Before him are Juliana of the Netherlands, Ray Charles, Estée Lauder, Czesław Miłosz, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. After him are Peter Ustinov, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Susan Sontag, Françoise Sagan, Christopher Reeve, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Crick ranks 325 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlotte, Princess Royal (1766), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), and Frederick North, Lord North (1732). After him are Ben Kingsley (1943), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Anthony Eden (1897), Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), and Jeremy Irons (1948).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Francis Crick ranks 10. Before him are Robert Edwards (1925), Robert Brown (1773), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), and John Sulston (1942). After him are John Edward Gray (1800), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Henderson (1945), Gregory Winter (1951), George Shaw (1751), and Michael Houghton (1949).

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