Francis Crick
Subtitle: hunter of life's secrets
By: by Robert Olby.
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780879697983
Subjects: Crick, Francis, -- 1916-2004; Geneticists -- Biography; Molecular biologists -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The call to Stockholm; title: A difficult act to follow; title: From the provinces to the big city; title: War work for the royal navy; title: Biology at the strangeways; title: Helical molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory; title: The DNA fiasco; title: Two pitchmen in search of a helix; title: A most important discovery; title: Publishing the model; title: Employed by the John Wayne of crystallography; title: The genetic code; title: Preaching the central dogma; title: Crick as experimentalist attacking the genetic code; title: The excitement of the sixties; title: Speaking out on controversial subjects; title: Biological complexity; title: Leaving the "old country"; title: Taking the plunge: neuroscience; title: From the searchlight to the soul; title: Eighty-eight years.