What is Francis Crick's middle name?
Harry Compton
What is Francis Crick's full name?
Francis Harry Compton Crick
Francis Crick nickname(s):
Francis Harry Compton Crick, Francis Compton Crick, Compton Crick
Francis Crick date of birth:
June 8, 1916
How old was Francis Crick when died?
88
Where was Francis Crick born?
Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England, UK
When did Francis Crick die?
July 28, 2004
Where did Francis Crick die?
San Diego, California, United States
What is Francis Crick nationality?
British
Where did Francis Crick go to school?
Northampton Grammar School Mill Hill School
Where did Francis Crick go to university?
University College London (BSc), University of Cambridge (PhD), Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (postdoc)
What is Francis Crick's occupation?
Micro-Biologist
Short Biography
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson. Together with Watson and Maurice Wilkins, he was jointly awarded 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".