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FRANCIS CRICK

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FRANCIS CRICK   AKA Francis Harry Compton Crick Born: 8-Jun - 1916 Birthplace: Northampton, England Died: 28-Jul - 2004 Location of death: San Diego, CA [1] Cause of death: Cancer - Colon Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean) Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Scientist Nationality: England Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of the structure of DNA Military service: British Navy (Admiralty Research Laboratory, WWII) Francis Crick's grandfather was a shoemaker and amateur scientist. His Uncle Walter also had a fascination with science, and young Francis conducted some chemical experiments with him (and without him). As a young man, Crick studied physics at University College in London, but was interrupted by service in World War II. Afterward, he resumed his studies at Caius College in Cambridge.     At Cambridge, he met an American named James Watson , and t
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JAMES WATSON

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JAMES WATSON AKA James Dewey Watson Born: 6-Apr - 1928 Birthplace: Chicago, IL Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Scientist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of DNA James Watson was a bright young American who entered the University of Chicago at the age of 15. He was particularly interested in birds, and quickly earned a BS and Ph.D. in zoology, then went to Europe to study genetics. At Cambridge, he met a Brit named Francis Crick , and together with their colleague Maurice Wilkins , they tried to elucidate the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). They felt Linus Pauling , then the world's most famous chemist, was breathing down their necks, and they desperately wanted to solve the DNA riddle before he did. Pauling had already come close, but it was Crick, Watson, and Wilkins who first showed that the collected clues only made sense if DNA were structured like two twisting, spiral ladder
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HAROLD UREY

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HAROLD UREY   Born: 29-Apr - 1893 Birthplace: Walkerton, IN Died: 5-Jan - 1981 Location of death: La Jolla, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Buried, Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield Center, IN Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Discovered Deuterium American chemist and physicist Harold C. Urey studied under Niels Bohr at Copenhagen, and is best known for his 1931 discovery of deuterium (heavy hydrogen, the isotope of hydrogen, with one proton and one neutron in its nucleus). He later said he had hoped that this discovery "might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs", but its principle use has proven to be in nuclear fusion reactions. Urey won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1934, and also isolated heavy isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, conducted respected rese
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HAPPY NEW YEAR

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X'MAS GREETINGS

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  MERRY X'MAS TO ALL VISITERS  
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STANLY MILLER

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                                                                                                               STANLY MILLER Born: 7-Mar-1930 Birthplace: Oakland, CA Died: 20-May-2007 Location of death: National City, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Cremated Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Miller-Urey Experiment             Stanley Miller's most famous scientific work was conducted in 1953, while he was a young graduate student at the University of Chicago. Working under Nobel laureate Harold C. Urey, he placed small amounts of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water -- but no oxygen -- in an airtight container, then heated it and subjected it to electrical sparks -- an attempt to approximate early earth atmosphere and weather. Although his work had been inspired by Urey's theories, Urey initially discouraged Miller from attempting the experiment, thinking it would take years, l
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JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARK

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                                                          JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARK                              Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Chevalier de Lamarck  Born: 1-Aug-1744  Birthplace: Bazentin-le-Petit, France  Died: 18-Dec-1829  Location of death: Paris, France  Cause of death: unspecified  Remains: Missing  Religion: Deist  Race or Ethnicity: White  Occupation: Biologist  Nationality: France  Executive summary: Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist       Military service: French Army (1759-68)       French naturalist, born on the 1st of August 1744, at Bazantin, a village of Picardy. He was an eleventh child; and his father, lord of the manor and of old family, but of limited means, having placed three sons in the army, destined this one for the church, and sent him to the Jesuits at Amiens, where he continued until his father's death. After this he would remain with the Jesuits no longer, and, not yet seventeen years of age, starte
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