Frank Lloyd Wright's Birth Anniversary

Frank Lloyd Wright, born on 8 June 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, U.S., was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.

A defining figure in 20th-century architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959) is one of a handful of masters who shaped the world of architecture as we know it today, influencing it as few others did. His name crosses boundaries and disciplines, breaking out of the sometimes-introspective world of architecture to touch on art, design and the way we live. With his roots in residential architecture, and his rich portfolio being instrumental in the development of modernist architecture, this is a creative that was both meticulous and versatile; organic and highly refined. By the time of his death, he completed hundreds of projects in the US and abroad. 

Frank Lloyd Wright’s work ranges from sprawling Prairie houses of the American countryside to more compact urban Usonian homes, and of course, the instantly recognizable, flagship modernism of Fallingwater and the New York Guggenheim, which have since become shorthand for the entire mid-century movement. At the same time, he wrote and taught, famously founding Taliesin West, a laboratory of architecture operating to this day. 

Francis Crick's Birth Anniversary

 

Francis Crick, born on 8 June 1916, in Holmfield Way, Northampton, United Kingdom, was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He is best known for his work with James Watson which led to the identification of the structure of DNA in 1953, drawing on the work of Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and others.

This discovery proved to be of enormous importance to biomedical research - and to life and health - and earned Crick, Watson and Wilkins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.

Crick began his scientific career in physics, obtaining a BSc from University College London in 1937. During World War Two he worked as a scientist for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, working on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines.

In 1947, Crick made the transition from physics into biology, which he described as "almost as if one had to be born again". His early studies at Cambridge were supported by a studentship from the Medical Research Council (MRC). 

In 1949, Crick joined the MRC unit headed by Max Perutz, which subsequently became the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. During this period, he worked on the X-ray crystallography of proteins, obtaining his PhD in 1954.