The 3 "Francis"es of Genetics

  1. Sir Francis Galton - Cousin of Charles Darwin and originator of eugenics.
  2. Francis Crick - Won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for discovering the double-helical structure of DNA.
  3. Francis Collins - Led the Human Genome Project (1990-2003)

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