Francis Crick

**Fransis Hari Kompton Krik** (; 8. jun 1916 – 28. jul 2004) je bio engleski molekularni biolog, biofizičar, i neuro naučnik. Najpoznatiji je po otkriću strukture DNK molekula 1953. zajedno sa Džejmsom D. Votsonom. On, Votson i Moris Vilkins su zajedno nagrađeni 1962. Nobelovom nagradom za fiziologiju ili medicinu „za otkriće molekulske strukture nukleinskih kiselina i njihovog značaja za transfer informacija u živim materijalima“.

Krik je bio važan teoretski molekularni biolog i imao je ključnu ulogu u istraživanjima vezanim za otkriće genetičkog koda. Poznat je takođe i po upotrebi termina “centralna dogma” kojom se sumira ideja da genetske informacije teku u ćelijama isključivo u jednom pravcu, od DNK do RNK do proteina.

Bio je profesor na Salk institutu za biološke studije u La Džoli, Kalifornija. Njegova kasnija istraživanja odnosila su se na oblast teorijske neurobiologije.

## Reference

## Literatura

* *Of Molecules and Men* (Prometheus Books, 2004; original edition 1967) 
* *Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature* (Simon & Schuster, 1981) 
* *What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery* (Basic Books reprint edition, 1990) 
* *The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul* (Scribner reprint edition, 1995) 
* Kreiseliana: about and around Georg Kreisel; ; 495 pages. For pages 25&nbsp;– 32 "Georg Kreisel: a Few Personal Recollections" contributed by Francis Crick.
* John Bankston, Francis Crick and James D. Watson; *Francis Crick and James Watson: Pioneers in DNA Research* (Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc., 2002) .
* Bill Bryson; *A Short History of Nearly Everything* (Broadway Books, 2003) .
* Soraya De Chadarevian; *Designs For Life: Molecular Biology After World War II*, CUP 2002,. pp.&nbsp;444.; .
* Roderick Braithwaite. ""'Strikingly Alive', The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807-2007; published Phillimore & Co. 
* Edwin Chargaff; *Heraclitean Fire*, Rockefeller Press, 1978.
* S. Chomet (Ed.), "*D.N.A. Genesis of a Discovery*", 1994, Newman- Hemisphere Press, London
* Dickerson, Richard E.; "*Present at the Flood: How Structural Molecular Biology Came About*", Sinauer, 2005; .
* Edward Edelson, "*Francis Crick And James Watson: And the Building Blocks of Life*"' Oxford University Press, 2000, .
* John Finch; 'A Nobel Fellow On Every Floor', Medical Research Council 2008,. pp. 381., .
* Hager, Thomas; "*Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling*", Simon & Schuster 1995; 
* Graeme Hunter; *Light Is A Messenger, the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg* (Oxford University Press, 2004) .
* Horace Freeland Judson, *"The Eighth Day of Creation. Makers of the Revolution in Biology*"; Penguin Books 1995, first published by Jonathan Cape, 1977; .
* Errol C. Friedberg; "Sydney Brenner: A Biography", pub. CSHL Press October 2010, .
* Torsten Krude (Ed.); *DNA Changing Science and Society* () CUP 2003. (The Darwin Lectures for 2003, including one by Sir Aaron Klug on Rosalind Franklin's involvement in the determination of the structure of DNA).
* Brenda Maddox *Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA*, 2002. .
* Robert Olby; *The Path to The Double Helix: Discovery of DNA*; first published in October 1974 by MacMillan, with foreword by Francis Crick; ; revised in 1994, with a 9-page postscript.
* Robert Olby; Oxford National Dictionary article: ‘Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916–2004)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, January 2008.
* Robert Olby; "Francis Crick: Hunter of Life's Secrets", Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, , published on 25 August 2009.
* Matt Ridley; *Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives)* first published in June 2006 in the US and then in the UK September 2006, by HarperCollins Publishers;. pp.&nbsp;192., .
* Anne Sayre. 1975. *Rosalind Franklin and DNA*. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. .
* James D. Watson; *The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA*, Atheneum, 1980,  (first published in 1968) is a very readable firsthand account of the research by Crick and Watson. The book also formed the basis of the award winning television dramatization *Life Story* by BBC Horizon (also broadcast as *Race for the Double Helix*).
* James D. Watson; *The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA*; The Norton Critical Edition, which was published in 1980, edited by Gunther S. Stent: .
* James D. Watson; "Avoid boring people and other lessons from a life in science" New York: Random House. ., 366pp.
* Maurice Wilkins; *The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins* .

## Vanjske veze

* Registar važnih članaka Francisa Krika 
* Krikove publikacije