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Crick: A Mind in Motion

Crick: A Mind in Motion

Cobb, Matthew

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralSports GeneralCognition

Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 1541602889
ISBN13: 9781541602885
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A major new biography of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius

Vivid and authoritative... [an] intriguing portrait of a gifted, self-absorbed, exuberant, and intuitive man. --The New York Times

Named a Best Book of the Year by Economist - Guardian

What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick's, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the structure of DNA made Crick world-famous. But neither that chance meeting nor that discovery made Crick who he was.

As Matthew Cobb shows in Crick, it is another chance encounter, with a line from the writing of Beat poet Michael McClure, that reveals Crick's character: THIS IS THE POWERFUL KNOWLEDGE, it shouted. Crick, having read it, would keep it with him for the rest of his life, a token of his desire to solve the riddles of existence. John Keats once accused scientists of merely wanting to unweave a rainbow, but it was an irrepressible, Romantic urge to wonder that defined Crick, as much as a desire to find the basis of life in DNA and the workings of our minds.

For the first time ever, Cobb presents the full portrait of Crick, a scientist and a man: his triumphs and failings, insights and oversights. Crick set out to find the powerful knowledge. Almost miraculously, he did.

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