Francis Harry Compton Crick Receives Priestley Award

Francis Harry Compton Crick, Kieckhefer Distinguished Professor at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, was presented the 1988 Priestley Award for his discovery of the structure of DNA and his subsequent work on the genetic code and the mechanism of Protein synthesis, which laid the foundation for the rise of fmodern molecular biology. At the ceremony, Dr. Crick gave an address titled "The Double Helix, Yesterday and Today."