Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He is the co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. He, along with 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, the Double Helix and its significance for information transfer in living material’. One of the most prolific molecular biologists, he played a vital part in research related to revealing the genetic code. He is commonly known for advocating that genetic information flow in cells is fundamentally one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein. During the rest of his career, he held the post of Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness.
