Nobel Prize Winner to Speak at CSUN

Francis H.C. Crick, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, will discuss the systems responsible for human sight Thursday in a lecture at Cal State Northridge.

Crick shared the Nobel with Maurice Wilkins and James Watson, with whom he established the function and double-helix structure of DNA, the key substance in the transmission of hereditary characteristics.

In recent years, the native of England has turned his attention to neurobiology, particularly the visual systems of mammals.

He has also written on the neural basis of attention, rapid-eye movement or REM sleep, consciousness and visual awareness.

Crick is a distinguished research professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and an adjunct professor of psychology at UC San Diego.

The free lecture, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Institutionalizing Student Biology Research Projects program, will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the campus Performing Arts Center.

For more information, call (818) 677-3356.