Online assignment on the contribution of scientists- James Watson and Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick Born on 8 June 1916 near Northampton. He studied physics at University College, London, and during World War Two worked for the Admiralty on the development of mines. He changed from physics to biology and in 1947 began to work at Cambridge University. By 1949, he was working at the Medical Research Council unit at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. In 1951, an American student, James Watson, arrived at the unit and the two began to work together. James Dewey Watson Born on 6 April 1928 in Chicago. He studied at the universities of Chicago, Indiana and Copenhagen. He then moved to Cambridge University. Contributions Watson and Crick worked together on studying the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecule that contains the hereditary information for cells. At that time Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, both working at King's College, London, were using X-ray diffraction to study DNA. Crick and Watson used their fi...