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    Francis Crick was a British scientist born in 1916 who studied physics and worked as a researcher for the British Admiralty during World War II. After the war, he studied at the University of Cambridge and became interested in molecular biology. In 1951, while working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Crick collaborated with James Watson to determine the double helix structure of DNA using data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. This discovery was published in 1953 and earned Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Crick made numerous other contributions in his career, including proposing the concept of the neural code to explain how the brain processes information, before his death in 2004.

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    Francis Crick was a British scientist born in 1916 who studied physics and worked as a researcher for the British Admiralty during World War II. After the war, he studied at the University of Cambridge and became interested in molecular biology. In 1951, while working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Crick collaborated with James Watson to determine the double helix structure of DNA using data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. This discovery was published in 1953 and earned Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Crick made numerous other contributions in his career, including proposing the concept of the neural code to explain how the brain processes information, before his death in 2004.

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    Francis Crick was a British scientist born in 1916 who studied physics and worked as a researcher for the British Admiralty during World War II. After the war, he studied at the University of Cambridge and became interested in molecular biology. In 1951, while working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Crick collaborated with James Watson to determine the double helix structure of DNA using data from Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. This discovery was published in 1953 and earned Crick and Watson the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Crick made numerous other contributions in his career, including proposing the concept of the neural code to explain how the brain processes information, before his death in 2004.

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    Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8, 1916 in Northampton, England.

    He studied
    physics at University College, London, and received his bachelor's degree in 1937. During
    World War II, Crick served as a researcher for the British Admiralty, working on the
    development of mine sweepers and other naval technologies.
    After the war, Crick decided to pursue a career in science and enrolled in the Ph.D. program
    in physics at the University of Cambridge. While there, he became interested in the field of
    molecular biology and began working on problems related to the structure of proteins.

    In 1951, Crick joined the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, where he began working with
    James Watson on the structure of DNA. Using X-ray crystallography data from Rosalind
    Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, Crick and Watson were able to determine the structure of
    DNA, which they described as a double helix. Their work was published in the journal Nature
    in 1953 and quickly became recognized as a major scientific breakthrough.
    Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their
    discovery of the structure of DNA. In addition to this award, Crick received numerous other
    accolades throughout his career, including the Copley Medal and the Presidential Medal of
    Freedom.

    In the 1960s, Crick turned his attention to the study of the brain and began working on the
    problem of how the brain processes information. He proposed the concept of the "neural
    code," which helped to explain how the brain encodes and decodes information.
    Crick remained active in the field of science until his death on July 28, 2004. Despite his
    many contributions to the field, he was known for his modesty and his ability to collaborate
    with others. He is considered one of the most important scientists of the 20th century and
    his work on the structure of DNA has had a profound impact on our understanding of
    genetics and the way in which living organisms inherit traits.

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