Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962, announced October 18, 1962. Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material”. Francis Crick: born 1916, Northampton, United Kingdom. James Watson: born 1928, Chicago, IL, USA. Maurice Wilkins: born 1916, Pongaroa, New Zealand. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).