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45. Other Awards |
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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (84) |
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Albert Medal (16) |
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Royal Medal (50) |
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Sir Hans Krebs Medal (16) |
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| complete name: |
Francis Harry Compton Crick |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1962 |
| together with: |
James D. Watson |
| together with: |
Maurice Wilkins |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 was awarded jointly to Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Francis |
| family name: |
Crick |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
biologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
biochemist |
| occupation: |
geneticist |
| occupation: |
neuroscientist |
| occupation: |
molecular biologist |
| field of work: |
molecular biology |
| work location: |
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| description: |
Francis Harry Compton Crick 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". Crick was an important theoretical molecular biologist and played a crucial role in research related to revealing the genetic code. He is widely known for use of the term "central dogma" to summarize the idea that genetic information flow in cells is essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein. During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness. He remained in this post until his death; "he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end" according to Christof Koch. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1962/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1916 |
| date death: |
2004 |
| usual name: |
Francis Crick |
