Professor Brian Cox ‘excited’ to receive Francis Crick Institute scholarship - The 57-year-old will present a new podcast ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Francis Crick, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA launched the modern genetics revolution and opened the road to biotechnology, has died in La Jolla at age 88.

"Francis is an atheist," Barondes, age 70, told me a few months before Crick's death. "He wants to remove the element of a divine power at work in biology. He is looking for solid, scientific answers.

Francis Crick was a pioneer molecular biologist who is credited, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, with discovering the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. The trio won the ...

Francis Crick, who won the Nobel Prize with colleague James Watson for revealing the double-helix structure of DNA, died in 2004 at the age of 88 after battling colon cancer.

Biologist Francis Crick had a “eureka” moment in 1953, and made sure people knew it. Crick told patrons of the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England that he and fellow biologist James Watson had ...

The drama that surrounded Francis Crick and James Watson’s 1953 unveiling of the structure of DNA is no secret — Watson described the heated competition between two British research groups in ...

After he discovered the secret of life, Francis Crick had to figure out what else to do with himself. We can all relate to this dilemma. Your resume says, "Discovered secret of life," but that ...