Francis Crick Research Paper

Francis Harry Compton Crick, is known by all to have received a nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his contributions in the discovery of deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA, and its structure. Although his accomplishments are incredible, the journey to them were even more so. Crick was born on june 8th in 1916 to a small town of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire located in the United Kingdom. Here Crick attended Northampton Grammar School, as a young boy. Later, Crick and his family moved to London due to the outbreak of World War 1. It was in London that Crick finished his education at Mill Hill School. As Crick being an avid reader and learner, he sought out his education at the University College in London. He, being fascinated with the study of the physical world, pursued physics, and graduated with a bachelor of …show more content…
The pair “hit it off immediately” and didn’t mind the age gap of 12 years. As the pair took long walks and asked the right questions, they both created a 3 dimensional model of the structure of DNA. They later found out that their model was inside out, and they became the laughing stock of the scientific community. Even though their model proved to be inaccurate, this still contributed to the discovery of DNA. Yet unwilling to give up, and with the help of Maurice Wilkins who provided X-ray crystallography taken by Rosalind Franklin, the pair announced on the morning of February 28th that they had found the secret of life! Unable to wait for the appropriate materials the two used cardboard and aluminum to model the double helix, as seen in the pictures taken by Rosalind Franklin. Crick and Watson’s model conveyed that DNA was a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, which wound around each other. According to Crick and Watson’s findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double