| Roughton, Francis | <person> British scientist, 1899-1972. See: Roughton-Scholander apparatus, Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Crick, Francis | <person> An English biologist born in 1916 who was one of three people to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the category of physiology or medicine. He and James Watson, an American biochemist and alumnus of Indiana University, discovered the double-stranded helix structure of the DNA molecule and built the Watson-Crick model of this structure. Their work was heavily based on the work of Maurice Wilkins (who also won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962) and Rosalind Franklin (who died before the 1962 Nobel Prize winners were selected). The model they postulated is the accepted model used today. Lived: 1916- (13 Nov 1997) |
| Senear, Francis | <person> U.S. Dermatologist, 1889-1958. See: Senear-Usher disease, Senear-Usher syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shepherd, Francis | <person> Canadian surgeon, 1851-1929. See: Shepherd's fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dercum, Francis | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1856-1931. See: Dercum's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kiernan, Francis | <person> English physician, 1800-1874. See: Kiernan's space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Francis Aston | <person, radiobiology> Physicist at Cambridge University who invented the mass spectrometer in 1919, a device which could measure the mass of individual atoms. This device led to his discovery that the helium nucleus was less massive than the two hydrogen nuclei which could have formed it (implying that the missing mass could somehow be converted into energy through the process of nuclear fusion). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Francis Crick | <person> An English biologist born in 1916 who was one of three people to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the category of physiology or medicine. He and James Watson, an American biochemist and alumnus of Indiana University, discovered the double-stranded helix structure of the DNA molecule and built the Watson-Crick model of this structure. Their work was heavily based on the work of Maurice Wilkins (who also won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962) and Rosalind Franklin (who died before the 1962 Nobel Prize winners were selected). The model they postulated is the accepted model used today. Lived: 1916- (13 Nov 1997) |
| francis turbine | A water-powered turbine used to transform water falling vertically to mechanical (rotating) energy. (05 Dec 1998) |