What Mad Pursuit A Personal View of a Scientific Discovery

About this book

The widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Crick describes the experiences that brought him to the field of molecular biology, the failures and frustrations preceding his triumph, and the peculiar distortions that crept into popular accounts of the event.

Contents

- Introduction
- Prologue
- The Gossip Test
- The Baffling Problem
- Rocking the Boat
- The a Helix
- How to Live with a Golden Helix
- Books and Movies About DNA
- The Genetic Code
- Fingerprinting Proteins
- Theory in Molecular Biology
- The Missing Messenger
- Triplets
- Conclusions
- Epilogue: My Later Years

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Biography

Francis Crick is the Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century.