The simple fables of the religious of the world have come to seem like tales told to children.
Francis Crick Quotes
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.
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| Birth: | 8th June, 1916 |
| Death: | 28th July, 2004 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Biologist, Scientist |
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Francis Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 with James Watson. He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
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