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Francis Crick

Biography

Firstborn in a family of shoemakers, Harry and Elizabeth Crick (with Wilkins maiden name) in Weston Favell, a small town in Northampton where she grew up. Since little was interested in science and learned all he could from books. As a child, was taken to the Congregational church by their parents, and the age of 12 he told his mother he did not want to attend.Preferred scientific research to the beliefs of any dogma. School attended Northampton Grammar School (now Northampton School for Boys) and after 14 years received a scholarship to study Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at the Mill Hill School in London. He studied physics at University College London, after being rejected by the University of Cambridge, graduating in science in 1937 at age 21. Hiscontemporaries in research on DNA, or Deoxyribonucleic Acid Nucleic Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins attended the University of Cambridge, Newnham and St. Johns, respectively.
So, for his doctorate he worked on a project to measure the viscosity of water at high temperatures, then described as boring, in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, but with the outbreak of theSecond World War, an incident where a bomb fell on the roof of the lab, destroying his experimental apparatus, ended his career as a physicist.
In World War II, he joined in 1939 and works in magnetic and acoustic mines submarine commissioned by the Royal Navy. He worked on the design of a new mine, which was effective against German minesweepers. After the war, he became interested in biologyand chemistry.
After the war, in 1947, Crick began studying biology and was part of a major migration of scientists in the field of physics to biological research. This migration was possible due to the influence of physical and John Randall, who helped win the war with inventions such as radar. Crick had to go to the "elegance and deep simplicity" of physics, the "elaborate chemical mechanismsthat natural selection has evolved over billions of years." He described this transition, "almost as if one had been born again." According to Crick, the experience of learning physics taught him important things, and the conviction that since physics was already a success, could also make great progress in other sciences like biology. Crick felt that this attitude encouraged him to be more daringthan typical biologists who tended to worry about the problems of biology, without paying attention to the achievements in physics.
For almost two years, Crick worked studying the physical properties of cytoplasm in the Cambridge Strangeways Laboratory, headed by Honor Bridget Fell, until he joined Max Perutz and John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. This laboratory was under thegeneral direction of Sir Lawrence Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner in 1915 at the age of 25 years. Bragg was a major influence in the effort to beat the American physicist, Linus Pauling, in discovering the structure of DNA, after it determined the alpha-helix structure of proteins. While also competing with the laboratory of Sir John Randall, who refused to Crick in his laboratory. In 1951 he beganworking with James Watson and devotes all his time to the structure of the DNA molecule, as identified by biologists as a key to the beginning of understanding of genetics.
Based on X-ray crystallographic analysis of Rosalind Franklin, on the specific competencies in genetics and biological processes of Crick and Watson crystallography, proposed the double helix structure of DNA molecule, publishedon April 25, 1953 in Nature.
The structure of the double helix molecule is DNA that gave the world the key to understanding the secrets of life: all life on earth exists only because of this ubiquitous DNA, from the smallest bacteria to man. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 with James D. Watson and British-born New Zealander Maurice Wilkins, whose work formed the...