| Francis Crick: Biography and Much More from Answers.com (7663 words) |
 | Crick shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson for their work in establishing the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the key substance in the transmission of hereditary characteristics from generation to generation. |
| Francis Crick was born, the first son of Harry and Anne Elisabeth Crick (nee Wilkins), and raised in Weston Favell a small village near the English town of Northampton where Crick’s father and uncle ran the family’s boot and shoe factory. |
| Crick felt that it was important that evolution by natural selection be taught in public schools and that it was regrettable that English schools had compulsory religious instruction. |
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