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

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-06-10 Pages: 160 Language: English Publisher: Atlas Books Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA. the building blocks of life.Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubreys Brief Lives. Dr Johnsons Lives of the Poets and Lytton Stracheys Eminent Victorians. this exciting and ground-breaking new series pairs great biographers. historians and novelists with iconic subjects. the writing bristling with original and distinctive points of view . On 28 February 1953. Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge and announced that he and his American colleague James Watson had found the secret of life. In fact. they had indeed done so. That morning. Crick and Watson had worked out the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). They had discovered its double helix ...