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“... I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood.’ Thus James Watson opens his notorious account of the discovery of the structure of DNA which won him, Crick and Maurice Wilkins a Nobel Prize in 1962. Whichever other of Watson’s judgments have been controversial – notably his dismissal of Rosalind Franklin, from whom, courtesy of Wilkins, he and Crick were provided with the crucial X-ray photographs of DNA crystals – his assessment of Crick has scarcely been disputed ...”

“... biology and even here did work that was later cited by researchers in the field, including Francis Crick. Feynman made advances in subjects ranging from nanotechnology to quark jets to the fundamental limits of computation. He seemed to know everything and everyone in science. He was well-loved by most of those who knew him, all of whom had ...”

“... from physicists and astronomers. Best known among them are the Nobel laureates James Watson and Francis Crick; less well known is Rosalind Franklin, who died in 1958 aged 37. Today many believe that, had she lived, she, too, would have won a Nobel Prize for her pivotal contribution to the work on DNA and subsequently on the structure of the tobacco ...”

“... the trellises on the cafeteria’s north-facing terrace is the building site of the forthcoming Francis Crick Institute, whose research laboratories will open in 2015: 1500 people are expected to work there. To the west is the Ossulston Estate, or the ‘Ring Road of the Proletariat’, as it’s also known, a Grade II listed housing project inspired ...”

“... or Medicine in 2019. One of them was Peter Ratcliffe, the clinical research director of the Francis Crick Institute, where I work. He began his Nobel lecture by presenting some of the data Fitzgerald collected.There is much still to discover about the physiology of oxygen sensing, but there’s no mystery at all about what happens when you deprive ...”

“... structure and behaviour of genes and other constituents of the living organism. Among them were Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, and one cannot doubt that Schrödinger’s little, flawed classic was an instigator of one of the most significant scientific advances of the ...”

“... many discoveries have been made almost simultaneously by two or three scientists ... If Watson and Crick had not discovered the double helix structure for DNA it would probably have been discovered by someone else within a few weeks or months ... Likewise, if I had not discovered restriction and modification of bacteriophage they would have been discovered ...”

“... knife, into the outer membranes of our cells and pull them apart. Structural biologists at the Francis Crick Institute have catalogued ten different conformations that Spike adopts to achieve this goal – complicated and fascinating stuff. This gives antibodies plenty of chances, however, to stick to Spike in such a way as to disrupt it: if you ...”

“... of research. By contrast, that mainstream takes very seriously an unguarded remark of the youthful Francis Crick, who once announced to the lunchtime crowd at the Eagle in Cambridge: ‘Jim and I have discovered the secret of life.’ Watson and Crick’s identification of the molecular structure of DNA was followed by ...”

“... the Earth’s atmosphere after the impact of a comet. Neither of these ideas is particularly new: Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, appealed to comets as the origin of life on Earth in his theory of ‘directed panspermia’; in 1684 the anonymous author of a book called Cometomantia explained that ‘we must expect ...”

“... testing are much more likely to work. A variety of such approaches have been employed. At the Francis Crick Institute we test everyone individually every week. It’s a big effort, but keeps our laboratories and our testing pipeline open. It’s possible to make this approach work on a larger scale. Cambridge University designed a pooled testing ...”

“... of the theory, epigenetics faded from view. With​ the discovery of the structure of DNA by Francis Crick and James Watson in the 1950s, there was a renewed conviction among biologists – especially the physicists and engineers turned biologists like Crick – that what was needed was a ruthless reductionism. It ...”

“... that so simple a molecule could specify genetic information, but its role became clear when Francis Crick and Jim Watson in Cambridge determined its three-dimensional structure. Their famous double helix showed how the genetic information is written on DNA and how it is copied every time a cell divides. Some years after this, scientists also ...”

“... elderly Lucian Freud’, his younger face changed by the years he spent working with Francis Crick in California in the 1960s by day and hanging out with Thom Gunn and his friends by night. This association of ideas, familiar from magazine profiles, is too neat to be persuasive. When Charlie meets him for a second time, towards the end of ...”

“... attentive style of thinking. We are conscious of whatever is currently in that workspace. In 1990, Francis Crick, working with Christof Koch, offered a somewhat different theory, focusing on consciousness in visual experience, and around the same time some groundbreaking experiments were undertaken by Nikos Logothetis, working with Jeffrey Schall and ...”