Francis Crick; Childhood and Early Life
Francis Crick was the son of Harry Crick and Anni Elizabeth Crick. Crick was born and raised in Weston Favell, and then later on in his life, he moved to a small village near the English town of North Hampton, where his father ran the family's shoe factory.
Even from a young age, Francis crick had a great intrest in science. Also, some of his older relatives, such as his Grandfather, was an amateur naturalist, who had the privellidge to correspond with Charles Darwin. Francis Cricks Grandfather also has two gastropods named after him.
Crick was educated at Northampton Grammar School, but at the age of 14, he moved to Mill Hill School in London because of a scholarship. It was here where he studied mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Crick was studying at the university "University College of London" or UCL, after being rejected a place at cambridge university, because he did not fulfill their Latin requirment. At the age of 21, Francis Crick was awarded a B.Sc. Degree in Physics from UCL. After that, Crick was a PHD student, however during his experiment of Viscosity of Water at mhigh temperatures- which he later described the dullest problem imaginable- a bomb fell through the labratory roof, exploding and destroying his research.
Viscosity, the substance at the top has a lower viscosity
Francis Crick; Childhood and Early Life
Francis Crick was the son of Harry Crick and Anni Elizabeth Crick. Crick was born and raised in Weston Favell, and then later on in his life, he moved to a small village near the English town of North Hampton, where his father ran the family's shoe factory.
Even from a young age, Francis crick had a great intrest in science. Also, some of his older relatives, such as his Grandfather, was an amateur naturalist, who had the privellidge to correspond with Charles Darwin. Francis Cricks Grandfather also has two gastropods named after him.
Crick was educated at Northampton Grammar School, but at the age of 14, he moved to Mill Hill School in London because of a scholarship. It was here where he studied mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Crick was studying at the university "University College of London" or UCL, after being rejected a place at cambridge university, because he did not fulfill their Latin requirment. At the age of 21, Francis Crick was awarded a B.Sc. Degree in Physics from UCL. After that, Crick was a PHD student, however during his experiment of Viscosity of Water at mhigh temperatures- which he later described the dullest problem imaginable- a bomb fell through the labratory roof, exploding and destroying his research.