SAN DIEGO - Nobel Prize-winning scientist Francis Crick, who co-discovered the spiral "double helix" structure of DNA in 1953 and opened the way for everything from gene-spliced crops and medicines to ...
SAN DIEGO -- Nobel Prize-winning scientist Francis Crick, who co-discovered the spiral, "double-helix" structure of DNA in 1953 and opened the way for everything from gene-spliced crops and medicines ...
It is 60 years since the structure of DNA was unravelled – the most important scientific breakthrough of the 20th century. X-ray diffraction images, generated at King’s College London in the early ...
Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June 1916 - 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the ...
After he discovered the secret of life, Francis Crick had to figure out what else to do with himself. We can all relate to this dilemma. Your resume says, "Discovered secret of life," but that ...
The call to Stockholm -- A difficult act to follow -- From the provinces to the big city -- War work for the Royal Navy -- Biology at the strangeways -- Helical molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory - ...
Al though they had no way of taking a firsthand look at their discovery, they managed to deduce a detailed description of the now famous “double helix” that paved the way for the new science of ...
Sixty years after the discovery of DNA's spiraling, ladderlike structure first hinted at the mechanism by which life copies itself, one of the Nobel Prize medals honoring this achievement is up for ...
Michael A. Hiltzik is a Times staff writer. He last wrote for the magazine about the dispute over screenwriting credits for the film "Spider-Man." His gait is slower now, his voice no longer quite as ...
At 85, James Watson still plays tennis every week. His hips and knees haven’t given out yet, he says, and he likes grass courts. “I try and play people who can hit the ball hard,” he said Tuesday at ...
‘SECRET OF LIFE’: DNA co-discoverer Francis Crick’s 1953 letter describing his breakthrough to son Michael (here together) set an auction record yesterday at Christie’s in New York. Photos: Christie’s ...
MAY Watson attends Maurice Wilkins’ lecture on X-ray crystal-lography of DNA APRIL Linus Pauling deciphers the molecular structure of the protein keratin OCT. Watson arrives at the Cavendish ...