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"Francis Crick's place in history was assured when he and James Watson unraveled the celebrated double helix of DNA. Their discovery of the structure of the genetic material of virtually all life on earth is regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century. Now, in What Mad Pursuit, Crick gives his own long-awaited account of the unique comination of choice and chance behind the epoch-making discovery, and how it, in turn, led...
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"There is probably no one who has a deeper understanding of life's biochemical basis than Francis Crick (b. 1916). In 1962 he jointly won the Nobel Prize (with James D. Watson and Maurice H. F. Wilkins) in physiology/medicine for breakthrough studies on the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In 1966 he published this collection of popular lectures in which he explained the importance of this discovery in layman's terms, emphasizing...