1949-08-11 Molecular biologist Francis Crick (33) weds artist Odile Speed (29)
Historical Events
1953-02-28 Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of DNA-molecule (double-helix polymer) using studies of x-ray diffraction developed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
1953-04-25 Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine
1962-10-18James Watson (US), Francis Crick (UK) and Maurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA
Alexander Fleming
Ivan Pavlov
John B. Gurdon
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Rosalind Franklin
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan