Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code (Eminent Lives)

Francis Crick - The First Biography of the Eminent Scientist, Co-Discoverer of the Double Helix Structure of DNA.

Written by Matt Ridley, Award-Winning Author of Genome. Get a considerably more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before (NYT).

Read the inspiring story of how this middle class mediocrity in the English Midlands transformed into an enormous success in biology at the age of 31, providing "a significantly more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before" (NYT). Matt Ridley's Francis Crick perceptively and warmly recounts the extraordinary life of the 20th century's most important biologist (James D.

Watson).

A nimble biography that captures the wonder of an unparalleled scientific mind at work and at play (Nicholas Wade, NYT). Lucid and riveting...

Completely captivating, a lively and deeply intriguing account of one of biology's most imaginative scientists (Kay Redfield Jamison).

This is a wonderful book--deeply substantive, lucid, trenchant, and witty.

It tells the biggest story in modern biology (David Quammen). A fitting tribute to a canonical figure in modern science (Publishers Weekly).

Ridley has captured the wonder of an unparalleled scientific mind at work and at play (Nicholas Wade, NYT).