Francis Crick
1916 – 2004 · United Kingdom · Biology
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962
Co-described the double helix and the central dogma of molecular biology.
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Who shaped Francis Crick, and who they shaped
Inherited from3
- Erwin Schrödinger
1887 – 1961 · Physics, Biology
What Is Life? sent Crick from physics to the molecular basis of heredity.
- Maurice Wilkins
1916 – 2004 · Biology, Physics
King's College diffraction data reached Cambridge through Wilkins.
- Rosalind Franklin
1920 – 1958 · Chemistry, Biology
Photo 51 and her B-form measurements are the evidence the double helix was built on.
Passed the work to2
- Jennifer Doudna
1964 · Chemistry, Biology
The central dogma defines the sequence-editing problem CRISPR solves.
- Shinya Yamanaka
1962 · Medicine, Biology
Molecular biology's programme of defined factors underlies iPS cell reprogramming.
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