Crick

Crick
Crịck,
 
Francis Harry Compton, britischer Biochemiker, * Northampton 8. 6. 1916; 1949-76 am Medical Research Council Laboratory in Cambridge tätig, seit 1977 Professor am Salk Institute in La Jolla (Calif.). Entwickelte 1953 mit J. D. Watson anhand der von M. H. Wilkins durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse ermittelten Daten ein Modell für die räumliche Struktur der DNS (Watson-Crick-Modell), wofür er mit Watson und Wilkins 1962 den Nobelpreis für Medizin oder Physiologie erhielt.

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