BIOLOGIST

Francis Crick

1916 - 2004

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Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for understanding DNA structure and functions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Crick has received more than 2,831,283 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Francis Crick is the 15th most popular biologist (up from 18th in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 174th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Biologist.

Francis Crick is most famous for his work with James Watson in discovering the structure of DNA.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Francis Crick ranks 15 out of 1,097. Before him are Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, and Alfred Russel Wallace. After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas Henry Huxley, Élie Metchnikoff, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Luc Montagnier, and Robert Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Francis Crick ranks 8. Before him are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Edward Heath, Kirk Douglas, Elena Ceaușescu, Roald Dahl, and Gregory Peck. After him are Aldo Moro, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Gough Whitlam, Claude Shannon, and João Havelange. Among people deceased in 2004, Francis Crick ranks 8. Before him are Ronald Reagan, Marlon Brando, Ahmed Yassin, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, and Juliana of the Netherlands. After him are Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis Crick ranks 163 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Priestley (1733), Catherine Parr (1512), Catherine Howard (1523), Thomas Young (1773), J. K. Rowling (1965), and Alfred Marshall (1842). After him are Saint Patrick (385), Edward V of England (1470), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), William Ramsay (1852), Brian May (1947), and Roger Waters (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Francis Crick ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin (1809), Alexander Fleming (1881), Rosalind Franklin (1920), and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823). After him are Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Robert Brown (1773), Christian de Duve (1917), Richard Owen (1804), John Edward Gray (1800), Robert Edwards (1925), and Philip Miller (1691).

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