Francis Crick Statue in Northampton
by Gordon James
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Francis Crick Statue in Northampton
Artist
Gordon James
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Photograph - Photography Digital
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This is the monument to celebrate the achievement of Francis Crick in Northampton, England. It was put up to celebrate the achievement of this local microbiologist.
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for understanding DNA structure and functions. Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were 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".
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