Editing Francis Crick (section)

==Personal life==
Crick married twice and fathered three children; his brother Anthony (born in 1918) predeceased him in 1966.<ref>[[#Olby|Olby]], p. ix</ref>

Spouses:
* Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd (m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947), became Mrs. James Stewart Potter
* [[Odile Crick]], née Speed (m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004)

Children:
* Michael Francis Compton (b. 25 November 1940) [by Doreen Crick]
* Gabrielle Anne (b. 15 July 1951) [by Odile Crick]
* Jacqueline Marie-Therese [later Nichols] (b. 12 March 1954, d. 28 February 2011) [by Odile Crick];

Crick died of [[colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] on the morning of 28 July 2004<ref name=rsbm/> at the [[University of California, San Diego]] (UCSD) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla; he was [[cremated]] and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies|Salk Institute]], La Jolla, near San Diego, California; guest speakers included [[James Watson]], [[Sydney Brenner]], [[Alexander Rich|Alex Rich]], [[Seymour Benzer]], [[Aaron Klug]], [[Christof Koch]], [[Pat Churchland]], [[Vilayanur Ramachandran]], [[Tomaso Poggio]], [[Leslie Orgel]], [[Terry Sejnowski]], his son Michael Crick, and his younger daughter Jacqueline Nichols.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Francis Crick, Co-Discoverer of DNA, Dies at 88 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E06E7D7113DF933A05754C0A9629C8B63 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 July 2004 |access-date=21 July 2007 | first=Nicholas | last=Wade}}</ref> A private memorial for family and colleagues was held on 3 August 2004.

Crick's [[Nobel Prize medal]] and diploma from the Nobel committee was sold at auction in June 2013 for $2,270,000. It was bought by Jack Wang, the CEO of Chinese medical company Biomobie.<ref name='HA13'>{{cite web|title=Francis Crick's Nobel Prize Brings $2.27 Million To Lead $4.97 Million Manuscripts And Rare Book Event |url=https://historical.ha.com/information/francis-crick-nobel-prize.s?ic=ih-arti-francis-crick-nobel-prize-071513|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117001024/https://historical.ha.com/information/francis-crick-nobel-prize.s?ic=ih-arti-francis-crick-nobel-prize-071513|archive-date=17 January 2021|publisher=Heritage Auctions|access-date=18 June 2023}}</ref><ref name='Guard13'>{{cite news|title=Francis Crick's Nobel prize medal sells for over £1.3m|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/12/francis-crick-nobel-prize|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510095215/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/12/francis-crick-nobel-prize|archive-date=10 May 2023|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=16 March 2023}}</ref> 20% of the sale price of the medal was donated to the [[Francis Crick Institute]] in London.<ref name='Guard13'/>