Francis Crick
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Birth place: Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, who played a crucial role in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Co-recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.