Francis Crick

Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June, 1916 – 28 July, 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-

References

• {{note|mad}} Chapters 1 and 2 of What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery by Francis Crick (Basic Books reprint edition, 1990 ISBN 0465091385) provide Crick's description of his early life and education.
• {{note|crickpubs}} See "Evidence for the Pauling-Corey alpha-Helix in Synthetic Polypeptides" (1952) Nature Volume 169 pages 234-235 (download PDF). Crick's scientific publications and letters are in the list of Francis Crick's Papers from the Wellcome Library or the National Library of Medicine.
• {{note|helix}} Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids by James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick. Nature 171, 737–738 (1953).
• {{note|nobel}} Francis Crick's 1962 Biography from the Nobel foundation.
• {{note|franklin}} Franklin's citation to the earlier work of W. T. Astbury is in "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate" by R. Franklin and R. G. Gosling in Nature (1953) volume 171 pages 740-741. The full text of this article is available for download in PDF format.
• {{note|pairs}} See Chapter 3 of The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (1996) ISBN 0879694785. Judson also lists the publications of W. T. Astbury that described his early X-ray diffraction results for DNA.
• {{note|code}} "Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid" by J. D. Watson and F. H. C. Crick (1953) in Nature Volume 171 pages 964-967.
• {{note|collagen}} "The structure of collagen" by A Rich and F. H. C. Crick in Nature (1955) Volume 176, pages 915-916.
• {{note|tieclub}} "On Degenerate Templates and the Adaptor Hypothesis: A Note for the RNA Tie Club" by Francis Crick (1956).
• {{note|synthesis}} "On protein synthesis" by F. H. C. Crick in Symp Soc Exp Biol. (1958);12:138-63.
• {{note|triplet}} "General nature of the genetic code for proteins" by F. H. C. Crick, L. Barnett, S. Brenner and R. J. Watts-Tobin in Nature (1961) Volume 192 pages 1227-1232.
• {{note|thecode}} "The Croonian lecture, 1966. The genetic code" by F. H. C. Crick in Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. (1967) Volume 167 pages 331-347.
• {{note|men}} Of Molecules and Men (Prometheus Books, 2004; original edition 1967) ISBN 1591021855. A portion of the book was published as "The Computer, the Eye, the Soul" in Saturday Review (1966): 53-55.
• {{note|theology}} "Molecular Biology in the Year 2000" by Francis Crick in Nature Volume 228 (1970) pages 613-615.
• {{note|spiritual}} "The serotonin system and spiritual experiences" by J. Borg, B. Andree, H. Soderstrom and L. Farde in The American Journal of Psychiatry (2003) Volume 160, pages 1965-1969. {{Entrez Pubmed|14594742}}
• {{note|origin}} "The origin of the genetic code" by F. H. C. Crick in J Mol Biol. (1968) Volume 38 pages 367-379. {{Entrez Pubmed|4887876}}
• {{note|orgel}} "Directed Panspermia? by Francis Crick and Leslie E Orgel in Icarus (1973) Volume 19 pages 341-346. Crick later wrote a book about directed panspermia called Life Itself (Simon & Schuster, 1981) ISBN 0671255622
• {{note|talk}} "Anticipating an RNA world. Some past speculations on the origin of life: where are they today?" by L. E. Orgel and F. H. C. Crick in FASEB J. (1993) Volume 7 pages 238-239.
• {{note|cycle}} "Towards a Neurobiological Theory of Consciousness" by Francis Crick and Christof Koch in Seminars in the Neurosciences (1990): Volume 2 pages 263-275.
• {{note|astonishing}} The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search For The Soul by Francis Crick. (Scribner reprint edition, 1995) ISBN 0684801582
• {{note|Steyn}} See The Twentieth-Century Darwin by Mark Steyn published in The Atlantic Monthly October 2004. Crick's description of his religious views (as given in What Mad Pursuit, see Chapter 1 of reference #1, above) after having told his mother that he no longer wished to attend church services: "...from then on I was a skeptic, an agnostic with a strong inclination toward atheism."
• {{note|hallucinogens}} Online at hallucinogens.com: Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life by Alun Rees.
• {{note|cannabis}} "The Times Advertisment and the Wooton Report" by Steve Abrams.