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Francis Crick

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q15631401&amp;oldid=2549679200" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fellow of the Royal Society
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q116918556&amp;oldid=2528662546" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q35794&amp;oldid=2565022482" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Cambridge
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q193196&amp;oldid=2547678668" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University College London
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q999734&amp;oldid=2490298133" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research · dated 1960
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1351061&amp;oldid=2523852761" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Wikidata describes Francis Crick as British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004).

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