The major credit I think Jim and I deserve . . . is for sel… - Francis Crick

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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve . . . is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It’s true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.

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Francis Harry Compton Crick (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953.

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Native Name: Francis Harry Compton Crick

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