Francis Crick

an American geneticist; Francis Crick, a British molecular biologist, and Maurice Wilkins, an English physicist and molecular biologist. The three worked together and achieved a significant impact on biotechnology in terms of the discovery of DNA structure (the double helix), and therefore they had been awarded Nobel Prize in 1962 (Watson, 1968). Their research and subsequent major discoveries…

James Watson along with Francis Crick helped discover what we know about DNA today. They helped shape what we know about DNA and changed the world with scientific contributions. James Watson along with his colleagues helped shape the modern science of today with his many studies of DNA, cancer, and genomes. James Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 6th, 1928. When he was young he attended Horace Mann Grammar School for 8 years and then attended South Shore High School for two years.…

Joseph Brillinger – 101012500 Khorana, Nirenberg and Holley won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure and properties of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to be made of nucleic acids arranged in a double helix.…

used paper chromatography to separate organic bases and measure the amount of each base in order to determine the ratio of the bases adenine-thymine (A-T) and cytosine-guanine (C-G) in DNA were constant and equal. This would in turn allow Watson and Crick to recognize base pairings and disproved the previous tetranucleotide model. Further studies on DNA were conducted using X-rays, discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Rontgen (1845-1923), by both Maurice Wilkins…

Rosalind Franklin an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer was born on July 25, 1920 in London, England. She was most known for her contributions to the discovery of the DNA structure. She was born into an influential Jewish family and at an early age she excelled in her studies, at the age of fifteen she discovered her love to become a scientist. She later on attended Newnham College in 1938 where she studied chemistry. Upon graduating she worked with Jacques Mering who taught her X-ray…

in 1953 with Francis Crick. Crick and Watson’s first efforts towards learning the structure of the DNA came up with many attempts, but it eventually concluded in the spring of 1953. Their research portrayed the DNA model pulling forth the double-helical configuration, which resembled a flexible ladder. Their research also showed how the DNA molecule could duplicate itself, which eventually answered one of the most brought-up fundamental questions in the field of genetics. Both Crick and Watson…

Carleton Prize for Biotechnology, I would like to nominate the brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin. Her crystallographic work at King’s College, London was a crucial contribution to the double-helix model of DNA discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick (Gregory, 2002). Her contributions to the scientific community are still being quoted today and without the discovery of the structure of DNA, present day scientific projects such as The Genome project would not have been possible (“Rosalind…

The Structure of DNA Somewhere in someone’s brain a curiosity is born that starts a wanting to find an answer. Not everybody gets these feelings to act upon their feelings of wanting to find out an answer, but for some people it does. An Austrian monk, Greg Mendel was a for-father of finding “basic patterns of inheritance.” He started doing his scientific experiments around 1854 in his gardens researching “the transmission of hereditary traits in plant hybrids” (Bio, a Biography of Gregor…

Wilkins, Watson, and Crick received the Nobel Prize, but in reality, was Rosalind Franklin’s data and photos of DNA that led to their discovery. They couldn’t have done it without her x-ray crystallography. Regardless of the discovery has had serious significance for modern…

In 1951 he went to the Zoological Station at Naples and met Maurice Wilkins and saw crystalline DNA’s X-rays diffraction pattern for the first time3. That fall he moved his research to the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory2. He met Francis Crick there too who shared his interest in puzzling out the structure of DNA1. Model showed the DNA molecule could duplicate itself3. They published their findings in the British journal Nature in April-May 19532. James D. Watson is famous because…