Francis Crick

**Francis Harry Compton Crick** () adalah ahli biologi Inggris. Pada tahun 1949 Francis mendapatkan Ph.D. di Universitas Cambridge.

Pada awal 1950-an bersama dengan James Dewey Watson dia menemukan subtansi bentuk dari dari DNA. Atas penemuannya ia memperoleh Penghargaan Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Kedokteran bersama Watson dan M.H.F. Wilkins.

Francis Crick adalah ahli biologi molekuler teoretis utama yang memberikan kontribusi signifikan dalam memahami struktur heliks DNA. Dia juga terkenal karena menciptakan istilah “dogma sentral”, yang merangkum prinsip bahwa informasi mengalir dari asam nukleat (DNA atau RNA) ke protein dan tidak dapat berbalik kembali ke asam nukleat. Konsep ini menyoroti sifat ireversibel dari langkah terakhir dalam transfer informasi genetik.

Di kemudian hari dalam kariernya, Crick menjabat sebagai Profesor Riset Terhormat J.W. Kieckhefer di Salk Institute for Biological Studies di La Jolla, California. Penelitiannya bergeser fokus ke neurobiologi teoretis, terutama untuk memajukan pemahaman ilmiah tentang kesadaran manusia. Dia tetap dalam peran ini sampai kematiannya, menunjukkan dedikasi tinggi pada ilmu pengetahuan; seperti yang dikatakan oleh Christof Koch, “dia menyunting naskah di ranjang kematiannya, seorang ilmuwan sampai akhir hayatnya.”

## Referensi

## Pranala luar

* The Francis Crick Institute 
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* "Francis Harry Compton Crick (1916–2004)" by A. Andrei at the Embryo Project Encyclopedia 
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;Crick papers
*Register of Francis Crick Personal Papers – MSS 660 Crick's personal papers at Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego
*Francis Crick Archive&nbsp;— Papers by Francis Crick are available for study at the Wellcome Library's Archives and Manuscripts department. These papers include those dealing with Crick's career after he moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego. The digitised papers are available at Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics: the Francis Crick papers 
* Comprehensive list of pdf files of Crick's papers from 1950 to 1990  – National Library of Medicine.
*Francis Crick papers  – *[[Nature (journal)|Nature]].com*
*https://web.archive.org/web/20060220105232/http://www.intuition.org/txt/crick2.htm for Crick's comments on LSD
* Manuscripts and Correspondence – Mark Bretscher Discovery of Crick's original scientific material in Cambridge, England.
*Key Participants: Francis H. C. Crick  – *Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History*

;Audio and video files
*An interview with Francis Crick and Christof Koch, 2001 
*Listen to Francis Crick
**[http://www.artboy.info/strange/listen.html#Christof1 The Quest for Consciousness] * – *The Quest for Consciousness* – 65&nbsp;minute audio program&nbsp;— a conversation on Consciousness with neurobiologist Francis Crick of the Salk Institute and neurobiologist Christof Koch from Caltech.
*Listen  to Francis Crick and James Watson talking on the BBC in 1962, 1972, and 1974.
*The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology  – a 1995 talk delivered by Crick at Oregon State University

;About his work
* The Crick Papers at the Wellcome Trust.
* "Quiet debut for the double helix" by Professor Robert Olby, *Nature* **421** (23 January 2003): 402–405.
* Reading list for discovery of DNA story from the National Centre for Biotechnology Education.

;About his life
* Olby's Australian lecture, March 2010 
*Salk Institute Press Release on the death of Francis Crick.
*BBC News: Francis Crick dies aged 88 
*Francis Crick (Archived 2009-10-31) – MSN Encarta
*The Francis Crick Papers  – Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine

;Miscellaneous
*National DNA Day, 25 April 2006 Moderated Chat Transcript Archive
*Obituary  in *The Times* (London) of Francis Crick, 30 July 2004.
* ''Independent'' On Line article about Consciousness, 7 June 2006.
*Francis Crick Obituary  *The Biochemist*
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*100 Scientists and Thinkers: James Watson and Francis Crick  from ''TIME'' magazine.
*Francis Crick: Nobel Prize 1962, Physiology or Medicine
*Associated Press story on the death of Francis Crick 
*First press stories on DNA but for the 'second' DNA story in *The New York Times*, see: https://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/science/dna-article.pdf&nbsp;—  for reproduction of the original text in June 1953.
*Lynne Elkins' article on Franklin.
*50th anniversary series of articles  -from *[[The New York Times]]*.
*Quotes  of Robert Olby on exactly who *may* have discovered the structure of DNA.
*listen to Matt Ridley  talking about Francis Crick.
*A celebration of Francis Crick's life in science.
*Francis Crick tells his life story  at Web of Stories
*Odile Crick's Artwork and biography
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*Article by Mark Steyn from The Atlantic in 2004 .
*Review of ''Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets'' in ''Current Biology''.