Francis Crick : hunter of life's secrets / Robert Olby.

Hunter of life's secrets

Cold Spring Harbor : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2009], ©2009.

xix, 538 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The call to Stockholm -- A difficult act to follow -- From the provinces to the big city -- War work for the Royal Navy -- Biology at the strangeways -- Helical molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory -- The DNA fiasco -- Two pitchmen in search of a helix -- A most important discovery -- Publishing the model -- Employed by the John Wayne of crystallography -- The genetic code -- Preaching the central dogma -- Crick as experimentalist attacking the genetic code -- The excitement of the sixties -- Speaking out on controversial subjects -- Biological complexity -- Leaving the "old country" -- Taking the plunge: neuroscience -- From the searchlight to the soul -- Eighty-eight years.