[Insight-users] Obituaries -- Francis Crick, 1916 – 2004

[Luis Ibanez]

By Scott LaFee
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

7:01 a.m. July 29, 2004

Associated Press
Francis Crick
The man who helped discover the secret of life is dead.

"Francis Crick, who was 88, died last night at Thornton Hospital in San
  Diego after a long battle with colon cancer. Along with James Watson,
  Crick was best known for discovering the structure of DNA – the
  mysterious molecule that defines and determines every form of life.

  Crick's name became scientific legend in 1953 when he and Watson, then
  just 36 and 24 years old, respectively, cracked the DNA code, revealing
  the structure and nature of the now-famous double helix of
  deoxyribonucleic acid.

  The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, earned the two men the
  1962 Nobel Prize for medicine, which they shared with Maurice Wilkins.
  More profoundly, it arguably altered the state of human existence,
  inevitably touching almost every aspect of modern life."

San Diego Tribune
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20040729-701-040729crick.html>

Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24495-2004Jul29.html

Special Section in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/healthspecial/index.html?8dpc