2. Childhood
James Watson Francis Crick
• Born on April 6, 1928 • Born on June 8, 1916
• Studied magnetic and
acoustic mining due to the
war
3. Education
James Watson Francis Crick
• University of Chicago • B.Sc. Degree in physics
• B.S. in Zoology from the University of
College London
• Indiana University
• Gonville and Caius
College
4. Experiments
• Using past discoveries
and models of DNA led
to the idea that DNA is
a double helix
• First to make an
accurate description of
the shape of DNA
• X-ray diffractions
5. Discoveries
James Watson Francis Crick
• Structure of DNA • Structure of DNA
• Tobacco Mosaic Virus • Genetic Code
• Virus Construction • “Central Dogma”
• Brain and
Consciousness
6. Accomplishments
James Watson Francis Crick
• Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize
• John Collins Warren Prize • The Francis Crick Institute
• Eli Lilly Award • Prix Charles Leopold Meyer of
the French Academy of
--Lasker Award
Sciences
--Research Corporation Prize
• Award of Merit of the Gairdner
• American Academy of Arts Foundation
and Sciences
• Warren Triennial Prize
• Avoid Boring People Lecturer
• American Academy of Arts
and Sciences
• Astonishing Hypothesis
• What Mad Pursuit
