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Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick dead at 88
By: North County Times Wire Reports - | ∞
Francis Crick
LA JOLLA - Francis Crick, who along with James Watson cracked the code for DNA, has died at Scripps Thornton Hospital after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 88.
Crick died last night, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Crick and Watson discovered the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, a molecule that defines and determines every form of life.
The pair received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1962 after reporting their discovery.
The breakthrough became the basis for San Diego's flourishing biotechnology industry, led to genetically altered food and gave law enforcement a tool for almost ironclad identifications of suspects.
Crick joined the Salk Institute in 1976.
His name will adorn a new research building at the institute in which DNA's regulation of brain activity will be studied, according to the Union-Tribune.
Crick is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. CNS-07-29-2004 05:16
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