Giants in Genomics: Francis Crick
Francis Crick and his American colleague, James Watson, discovered the double helix structure of DNA. For this fundamental finding Francis, James, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
Topics
- genomics
- Francis Crick
- James Watson
- DNA
- double helix
- Maurice Wilkins
- Nobel Prize
- physiology
- medicine
- United Kingdom
- University College London
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Strangeways
- Cavendish
- laboratory
- biochemical
- protein
- genes
- bases
- amino acid
- central dogma
- RNA
- molecular biology
- Royal Society
- Irish Academy
- US National Academy of Sciences