You could say that people back then were freaks. You could also say they were scary, but they are no different from us. I mean sometimes I scare myself, goshh I hate mirrors. I'm here today to talk to you about four different scientist and there studies on genetics.The first person I will be talking about is Francis Harry Compton Crick. He was born on June 8th, 1916 in Northamton, England and went to Mill High School (North London). He had an occupation as a scientist and started his work at University College of London when he was younger, but was eventually interrupted by service in WWII. When he returned he continued his studies in Caius College in Cambridge. At Cambridge he met an American named James Watson [who I will also be talking about] and together with there colleague Maurice Wilkins they tried to make the structure of DNA clearer. It was a competion against those three and a man named Linus Paulding to figure out the riddle to DNA. Linus Paulding was a famous scientist who had already came close to solving the riddle but Cricks, Watson, and Wilkins were the first to figure out DNA looked like to twisted spiral ladders. However stories tell that they were not the only three helping out during the process. A lady named Rosalind Franklin helped correct all the flaws in some of there early theorys. She felt she deserved more credit toward the project, but others say different. She died in 1958, four years before Cricks and his two friends recieved their Nobel Prize. After finishing up a few other experiments with DNA and different genetics he started working at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He died July 18, 2004 in San Diego, CA. He died of Colon Cancer and was cremated and his ashes remain in the Pacific Ocean. RIP (:
  The next person im going to talk about is James Dewey Watson. He was born on April 6th, 1928 in Chicogo and is still alive right now. He worked on genetics as did Francis Cricks. In fact they worked together as partners, you should know from the paragraph before this. During his younger years he spent his elementary years in Chicago where he attended for eight years Horace Mann Grammar School and for two years South Shore High School. After finished high school he recieved a tuition scholarship to the University of Chicago, and in the summer of 1943 attended their experimental 4-year college. He had alot of intrest on birds and eventually received a Fellowship for graduate study in Zoology at Indiana University in Bloomington, and he then got his Ph.D. degree in Zoology in 1950. Soon after October in 1951 he met Francis Cricks and together found out how much they found out how much they enjoy genetics and became partners on experiments just as partners in crime. He continued his studies and recieved the Nobel Prize with Cricks and ever since the fall of 1956, he has been a member of the Harvard Biology Department, as a assistant professor, then in 1958 as an associate professor, and as professor since 1961. -LIVE LONG, STAY STRONG (: |
