Francis Crick
Noun
Meaning
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
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Examples
Perhaps, as my former colleague Francis Crick suggested, no one should be thought alive until about three days after birth.
In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)
Watson: But legalities aside, I think we must reevaluate our basic assumptions about the meaning of life. Perhaps, as my former colleague Francis Crick suggested, no one should be thought alive until about three days after birth.
Because the monument memorializes only American laureates, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins (who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) are omitted.
Criticism of the theory Criticism of Neural "Darwinism" was made by Francis Crick on the basis that neuronal groups are instructed by the environment rather than undergoing blind variation.
Francis Crick has commented on potential limitations of Occam's razor in biology.