Crick, Francis Harry Compton

Crick, Francis Harry Compton. What Mad Pursuit. Basic Books, Inc., New York. 1988. 

Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916-2004) was born in Northampton, England, and began his scientific career as a physicist Following an interrup- I tion in his studies caused by World War . he switched to biology and received his Ph.D. in 1954 at Cambridge University. He then remained at Cambridge University as pro essor. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine. 

James Dewey Watson and Francis Harry Compton Crick... 

James Dewey Watson (bom 1928) and Francis Harry Compton Crick (1915-2002) developed a... 

Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on 8 June 1916 in Northampton, England. He studied physics at University College, London, where he obtained a BSc in 1937. He then started his PhD in physics, which was interrupted in 1939 by the outbreak of World War II. Crick worked as a scientist for the British Admiralty until he left in 1947 to study biology in Cambridge, where he worked at the Strangeways Research Laboratory. 

American biochemist James Dewey Watson, corecipient, with Francis Harry Compton Crick and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, of 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. ... 

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