“It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.”
James Watson and Francis Crick in their 1953 Nature paper “A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid”. Crick died last week, aged 88, in San Diego, California
“I felt slightly queasy when at lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing that we had found the secret of life.”
James Watson (The Double Helix, 1968)
“I will always remember Francis for his extraordinarily focused intelligence and for the many ways he showed me kindness. Being with him for two years in…
