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Francis Harry Compton Crick
DNA structural-model coauthor
Also known as Francis Crick · F. H. C. Crick
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Who they are
Francis Crick coauthored the 1953 DNA double-helix model with James Watson. Their paper connected a proposed molecular structure with complementary base pairing and a possible copying mechanism. It drew on chemical evidence and experimental work by others, including the King’s College researchers, whose separate contributions are retained in this timeline.
His work connects molecular structure with biological information and inheritance.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the double-helical DNA model and its proposed copying implication.Source ↗
Selected works
Academic paper · 1953
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
Watson and Crick propose two DNA chains with complementary base pairs and suggest an implication for copying. Their short paper acknowledges experimental and chemical evidence supplied by other researchers and calls for further testing.
Reading scope & citation
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Documented connections
Documented · co authored with
James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored the DNA structural-model paper.
This is authorship of one paper in the three-paper sequence; the experimental papers and acknowledged contributors retain their separate credit.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid ↗Nature 171, 737–738; transcription hosted by California State University, Stanislaus
Portrait credit
Marc Lieberman; source crop by Materialscientist. CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
