Watson and Crick

The premise of this paper is to detail the contribution of a famous scientist and their work, as well as discuss the modern day implication of the scientist’s contribution on society. Ideally this paper would be a biographical analysis of a single person but due to my background and major I have instead chosen to write about two people that worked as a group to revolutionize biological sciences. The scientific pair of Francis Crick and James Watson worked together to research and published an article about the structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) that had countless short term and long term consequences that changed the scientific as well as medical fields and lead to many advancements that have drastically effected modern life. To reflect exactly how important the discovery was, Watson and Crick shared the Noble Prize for Physiology in 1962.

Born on June 8 in the year 1916, Francis Crick was a British biophysicist that started from humble roots in a small town. He was an exemplary student from his youth when he received a scholarship to study mathematics and physics. Crick was initially more inclined towards studying Physics and received his Bachelors Degree from the University College of London in Physics. He later became a candidate for a

Ph.D. in Physics from Gonville and Caius College. During this time, he also worked at a biology lab along with conducting his own experiments for his research for his

Ph.D. in physics.

One of the biggest transitions in Crick’s life came during World War II. Since he was in London at the time, which was the heart of the conflict, his lab at which he had been conducting Physics research for his Ph.D. was destroyed due to a bomb.

This lead him to work for the Military during World War II, he c...

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...k at a Breast Cancer Research Lab where my daily work involves experimentation with cells that have been altered genetically, or experimentally inserting a piece of DNA that has been synthesized externally to combat a certain characteristic of the cell.

In conclusion, without the knowledge of the structure of DNA it would have been impossible to make the discoveries that have been made today and to achieve the feats that people have achieved with the use of DNA. The discovery of the structure of DNA was the first step in a series of discoveries that lead to the transformation that modern biological science has gone through. Although Watson and Crick’s discovery was merely a part of a larger puzzle, its importance can not be reduced because of the benefits that have come out of the field which would not have been possible without the knowledge of the structure of DNA.