Francis Crick. Hunter of Life’s Secrets.

First Edition. Contents: Time Line; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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; Epilogue; Sources and Notes; Illustration Credits; Biographical Index; Index.