US biochemist and Nobel laureate; with F. Crick at Cambridge, deduced the structure of DNA from R. Franklin’s X-ray crystallography data; with others, broke the genetic code in the 1960s. Perennial leader of American biological science policy at Cold Spring Harbor, and co-founder of the Human Genome Project in 1989. Winner of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal (1993).
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Crick, Francis Henry Compton (Molecular biologist at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge; Nobel laureate. In 1953, working ...)
behaviorism (Psychological theory of animal behavior that rejects genetically based explanations and ...)
DNA helix (See double helix; aka Watson-Crick helix.)
double helix (... DNA helix, twin helix, Watson-Crick helix.)
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (English biophysicist; while she was working at Wilkins’ lab, Franklin’s X-ray diffraction ...)