Francis Crick : Discoverer of the Genetic Code

Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Matt Ridley is the author of the New York Times bestseller Genome, and his recent book The Agile Gene won the National Academies Book Award for best science book of the year. A visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, he lives in Newcastle, England, and New York.

Prologue: Life Itself	p. 1
Crackers	p. 3
Three Friends	p. 17
Cambridge	p. 29
Watson	p. 45
Triumph	p. 59
Codes	p. 77
Brenner	p. 97
Triplets and Chapels	p. 115
The Prize	p. 127
Never in a Modest Mood	p. 145
Outer Space	p. 163
California	p. 179
Consciousness	p. 191
Epilogue: The Astonishing Hypothesisér	p. 207
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 211
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Francis Crick : Discoverer of the Genetic Code

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