Francis Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick came into the world on June 8, 1916, in Northampton, England. He was the eldest of the two children of Harry Crick and Anne Elizabeth Wilkens.

In 1953, Crick and James Watson uncovered the double helix structure of DNA. They first published one of their four papers about this discovery in the April 25, 1953 edition of the journal, Nature.

In addition to his work in the discovery of the double helix, Crick has made many other discoveries. He, along with Vernon Ingram, discovered the function of the genetic material in determining the specificity of proteins. In 1957, Crick began work with Sydney Brenner to determine how the sequence of DNA bases would specify the amino acid sequence in proteins. Crick's work led to many RNA/DNA discoveries and helped in the creation of the DNA/RNA dictionary.

Crick won the 1962 Nobel Prize of Medicine and Physiology that he shares with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins. The trio also won the 1960 Albert Lasker Award. Crick was acknowledged as a Visiting Lecturer at Rockefeller Institute in 1959, and as a Visiting Professor for Harvard University in 1959 and 1960. Crick won the 1962 Gardener Foundation Award, the 1972 Royal Society’s Royal Medal, and the 1976 Royal Society’s Copley Medal.

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Birth Year Events (1916)

Notable Births

Francis Crick
Betty Grable
Glenn Ford
Gregory Peck
Harry James
Jack Elam
Jack Paar
Jackie Gleason
Ken Curtis
Olivia de Havilland
Trevor Howard
Peter Finch
Ray Conniff
Dinah Shore
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Kirk Douglas
Walter Cronkite
Virgil Partch
Daws Butler
Sid Luckman
Forrest J. Ackerman
Roald Dahl

Deaths

Henry James
Rasputin
Eduard Strauss
Jack London

Politics

Woodrow Wilson Re-elected

Military

Battle of Verdun

Inventions

Lincoln Logs

Perspective
(1916-1949)

1916
Radio sets get tuners

1918
First Airmail service (Washington, DC, to New York)

1919
Shortwave radio invented

1920
Pittsburgh radio station broadcasts first scheduled programs

1922
Commercial broadcasting begins
First 3D movie

1923
Neon signs

1926
Goddard launches liquid fuel rocket
NBC is formed
First Pop-Up Toaster

1927
"The Jazz Singer" is the first "talkie"
Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns
Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic solo

1928
Teletype machine debuts
Mickey Mouse introduced
TV studio built in London

1929
Stock market crashes
Car radio introduced
Germans produce audio tape
Carl Benz, automobile pioneer, dies