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Francis Crick : hunter of life's secrets /

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Author / Creator: Olby, Robert C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Crick, Francis, > 1916-2004.
Geneticists > Biography.
Molecular biologists > Biography.
Geneticists.
Molecular biologists.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Time Line
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Call to Stockholm
  • 2. A Difficult Act to Follow
  • 3. From the Provinces to the Big City
  • 4. War Work for the Royal Navy
  • 5. Biology at the Strangeways
  • 6. Helical Molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory
  • 7. The DNA Fiasco
  • 8. Two Pitchmen in Search of a Helix
  • 9. A Most Important Discovery?
  • 10. Publishing the Model
  • 11. Employed by the John Wayne of Crystallography
  • 12. The Genetic Code
  • 13. Preaching the Central Dogma
  • 14. Crick as Experimentalist Attacking the Genetic Code
  • 15. The Excitement of the Sixties
  • 16. Speaking Out on Controversial Subjects
  • 17. Biological Complexity
  • 18. Leaving the "Old Country"
  • 19. Taking the Plunge: Neuroscience
  • 20. From the Searchlight to the Soul
  • 21. Eighty-Eight Years
  • Epilogue
  • Sources and Notes
  • Illustration Credits
  • Biographical Index
  • Index

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