James watson and francis crick biography timeline
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Watson and Crick ( )
James Watson and Francis Crick, ©Crick and Watson, together with Maurice Wilkins, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the structure of DNA.
This was one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 20th century.
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on 8 June near Northampton.
James watson and francis crick biography timeline
He studied physics at University College, London, and during World War Two worked for the Admiralty on the development of mines. He changed from physics to biology and in began to work at Cambridge University. By , he was working at the Medical Research Council unit at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
In , an American student, James Watson, arrived at the unit and the two began to work together.
James Dewey Watson was born on 6 April in Chicago and studied at the universities of Chicago, Indiana and Copenhagen. He then moved to Cambridge University.
Watson and Crick worked together on studying the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the mol