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Jul. 29th, 2004 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingFrancis Crick has died aged 88.
Professor Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, US, where he had been battling colon cancer.
The British-born scientist won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structure, which he helped model in 1953 at the University of Cambridge.
"Francis Crick will be remembered as one of the most brilliant and influential scientists of all time," said Richard Murphy, the Salk Institute's president and chief executive officer.
Dr Matt Ridley, author of Genome and Nature Vs Nurture said: "Francis Crick made not one but many great scientific discoveries.
"He found that genes are digital codes written on DNA molecules, he found that the code is written in three-letter words and he was instrumental in cracking the code.
"Any one of those things would have got him into the scientific pantheon. Discovering all three places him alongside Newton, Darwin and Einstein."
Professor Crick died at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, US, where he had been battling colon cancer.
The British-born scientist won the Nobel Prize for his work on DNA's structure, which he helped model in 1953 at the University of Cambridge.
"Francis Crick will be remembered as one of the most brilliant and influential scientists of all time," said Richard Murphy, the Salk Institute's president and chief executive officer.
Dr Matt Ridley, author of Genome and Nature Vs Nurture said: "Francis Crick made not one but many great scientific discoveries.
"He found that genes are digital codes written on DNA molecules, he found that the code is written in three-letter words and he was instrumental in cracking the code.
"Any one of those things would have got him into the scientific pantheon. Discovering all three places him alongside Newton, Darwin and Einstein."