Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Published: August 24, 2008, 3:17 pm
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James Watson and Francis Crick with their DNA model at the Cavendish Laboratories in 1953. (Photo: C. Barrington Brown)
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004), an English biologist, discovered the double-helical structure for DNA and its replication scheme along with J. D. Watson in 1953. Crick and Watson subsequently suggested a general theory for the structure of small viruses and shared the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine in 1962. Crick had been greatly influenced after reading What is Life? The Physical Aspects of the Living Cell by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Schrödinger was interested in the idea of applying physics to the study of biology and proposed investigating genes at the molecular level. This motivated Crick to switch his field from particle physics to biology.
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Tom Lawrence (Topic Editor) "Crick, Francis Harry Compton". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 24, 2008; Last revised Date August 24, 2008; Retrieved May 21, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Crick,_Francis_Harry_Compton>
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Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
James Watson and Francis Crick with their DNA model at the Cavendish Laboratories in 1953. (Photo: C. Barrington Brown)
Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004), an English biologist, discovered the double-helical structure for DNA and its replication scheme along with J. D. Watson in 1953. Crick and Watson subsequently suggested a general theory for the structure of small viruses and shared the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine in 1962. Crick had been greatly influenced after reading What is Life? The Physical Aspects of the Living Cell by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. Schrödinger was interested in the idea of applying physics to the study of biology and proposed investigating genes at the molecular level. This motivated Crick to switch his field from particle physics to biology.
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