Francis Harry Compton Crick was born in Northampton, central England, on June 8th, 1916, was physical, molecular biologist, biophysicist and British neuroscientist best known for co-discovering the DNA molecule structure in 1953, with James Watson. Crick graduated in physics at University College, London, in 1937. Between 1937 and 1940 conducted research in hydrodynamics and during World War II, military artifacts designed for the Royal Navy. In the late 1940s, interest in physics began to cool he was more interested in the recent advances in biology, an area which, he believed, could become so important in the following years. In 1953, in partnership with James Watson based on experimental work of British Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin proposed the structure of the famous double helix molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a constituent of chromosomes and responsible for the transmission of hereditary characteristics of living things. Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.