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Francis Crick

3/17/2004

Biology I

Famous Person

Francis Harry Compton Crick was born June 8, 1916 in Northampton, England. He was the first of two children born to Harry Crick and Anne Elizabeth Wilkens. Crick attended grammar school in North Hampton, but moved to North London to attend Mill High School. At age eighteen, Crick enrolled in University College where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1937.

In 1940, Crick and his then wife, Ruth Doreen Dodd, bore a son named Michael. Crick and Doreen divorced in 1947, and two years later he married his present wife, Odile Speed. He and Odile have two daughters, Gabrielle and Jacqueline. Crick did his graduate studies on the measurement of viscosity of water at high temperatures. In 1947, he began his Ph.D. work at the Strangeways Laboratory, Cambridge with Arthur Hughes. There Crick and Hughes studied the physical properties of cytoplasm in the cultured fibroblast cells. Two years later he joined the Medical Research Unit at Cavendish Laboratory. There Crick worked with Max Perutz and John Kerdrew on protein structure. He ended up doing his Ph. D work on x-ray diffraction of proteins.

Crick soon joined James Watson in an attempt to uncover the structure of DNA. Crick brought to the project his knowledge of x-ray diffraction, while Watson brought knowledge of phage and bacterial genetics. In 1953, these two distinct backgrounds uncovered the structure of DNA: the double helix. Crick and Watson first published one of their four papers about this discovery in the April 25 edition of the journal Nature.

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