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Personal Life
Education
Work Prior to Discovery
Information About Discovery
Historical Time Period
100
I was born and I died on these dates.
When are 6/8/1916 and 7/28/2004?
100
My education was interrupted for this reason.
What is designing magnetic and acoustic mines in WWII?
100
I did this at Strangeways Lab in Cambridge.
What is measuring the viscosity of cytoplasm?
100
The explanation of this was the main focus of my experiments.
What is the central dogma of biology, or DNA codes for RNA, which codes for proteins?
100
This event disrupted my career as a physicist.
What is a bomb falling into and destroying my physics lab in the Battle of Britain in 1940?
200
These people made my nuclear family.
Who are one younger brother and two parents?
200
My science career started with this.
What is a BSc in physics at the University College in London?
200
I worked on protein structure at this laboratory.
What is Cavendish Laboratory?
200
I won this award in 1962.
What is The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
200
This is how much was known about the structure of DNA at the time?
What is very little, other than DNA was genetic material?
300
I was born and raised here.
Where is Northamptonshire, United Kingdom?
300
I had to originally teach myself these topics.
What are biology, organic chemistry, and crystallography?
300
I studied X-ray crystallography of proteins here.
What is the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology?
300
This scientific process was crucial to my work on the structure of DNA.
What is X-ray crystallography?
300
This is what helped the eventual discovery of DNA replication.
What is my research?
400
I stopped going to church because of this.
What is I thought science was more legitimate?
400
I felt like I was "born again" when this happened.
What is changing subjects from physics to biology?
400
I did this in my last years.
What is working on neurobiology?
400
This was the shape and pairs of nucleotide bases I concluded DNA was made of.
What are a double helix, adenine and thymine, and cytosine and guanine?
500
I worked on top of the work of these scientists.
Who are Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, and many others?
500
I was supported by a scholarship to do what?
What is studying biology later on at Cambridge?
500
This is what I used to build an accurate 3D model.
What are metal skeleton (line angle) atom models?