Table of Contents

Time Line Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Call to Stockholm 2. A Difficult Act to Follow 3. From the Provinces to the Big City 4. War Work for the Royal Navy 5. Biology at the Strangeways 6. Helical Molecules at the Cavendish Laboratory 7. The DNA Fiasco 8. Two Pitchmen in Search of A Helix 9. A Most Important Discovery? 10. Publishing the Model 11. Employed by the John Wayne of Crystallography 12. The Genetic Code 13. Preaching the Central Dogma 14. Crick as Experimentalist Attacking the Genetic Code 15. The Excitement of the Sixties 16. Speaking out on Controversial Subjects 17. Biological Complexity 18. Leaving the Old Country' 19. Taking the Plunge: Neuroscience 20. From the Searchlight to the Soul 21. Eighty-Eight Years Epilogue Sources and Notes Illustrations Credits Biographical Index Index