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Papers of Francis Crick, The majority of folios date from
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Papers produced while Crick was working at the Medical Research Council enhet for the Study of Molecular Biology, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
Dates
- Creation: The majority of folios date from
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Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Some material within the collection is closed to researchers.
Biographical / Historical
Francis Crick was born 8 June , eldest son of Harry and Annie Elizabeth Crick (née Wilkins). He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and then Mill Hill School, then studied physics at University College, London, later taking a research grad at Caius College, Cambridge (receiving an Honorary Fellowship in ); he married 1st, in , Ruth Doreen Dodd (divorced, ),
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Francis Crick Personal Papers, (MSS )
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8, in Weston Favell, a district of Northampton, in central England. Crick was the eldest of the two sons of Harry Crick () and Anne Elizabeth Crick (née Wilkins) (). His father and uncle ran the leather boot and shoe factory founded by their father, Walter D. Crick, an amateur naturalist. The elder Crick wrote a survey of local foraminifera (single-celled protists with shells), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods (snails or slugs) named after him.
Crick attended Northampton Grammar School and the non-conformist Protestant Congregational Church. At age 14, he won a scholarship to the Mill Hill School, a private boarding school in North London that his father and three uncles had also attended.
At age 18, Crick attended University College in London (UCL). In , he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree, second honors, in Physics with a minor in mathematics. With family fina
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Crick attended Northhampton Grammar School and, after moving to London, Mill Hill School. Even at school, his interest was primarily in the natural sciences - physics, chemistry and mathematics. So he decided to study physics at University College London. He graduated in and immediately began his doctoral studies. The outbreak of the Second World War in initially interrupted his training, but Crick continued to work for the British Admiralty as a scientist, mainly in connection with the development of magnetic and acoustic mines. In Crick married Ruth Doreen Dodd, and their son Michael Crick was born from this union. The couple divorced in After the war ended, Crick remained in the Navy for another two years. During this time he read the book "What is life? The physical aspects of Living Cell" by the physicist Erwin Schrödinger. From then on he became enthusiastic about the connection between physics and biology.
He left the Navy in and began studying biology. In Ca