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Also Known As Francis Harry Compton Crick
Born June 8, 1916 • Northampton • England
Died July 28, 2004 (aged 88) • San Diego • California
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1975) • Nobel Prize (1962)
Notable Works “Of Molecules and Men”
Subjects Of Study DNA • base • codon • double helix • genetic code

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Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
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Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
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Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
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English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
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Marshall Warren Nirenberg
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A.D. Hershey
American biologist
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Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
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Sir James Black
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
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