Shuffling Off This Mortal Helix

Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, has died. His work may eventually provide the key to dramatically prolonging the rest of our lives.

Comments

[Warren]

No comments for Crick? This makes me sad. Can't say I know very much about the man. Last time I saw him speak he was very old and had trouble putting a sentence together. But, he seemed engaged and on top of the latest developments in genetic research. At any rate, "The Double Helix" was a historically significant work. A sort of science mystery full of political back-stabbing. Common enough these days but groundbreaking at the time. I put it on the short list with The Principia, and Evolution of a Species.

[MJ]

"...if moonshine don't kill me, I'll live 'til I die"

[Daniel Montiel]

I wanted to say something too. I was a chemist in school, not a biologist, but we worked with photchemistry affecting DNA in grad school, so a lot of papers started with "Crick's work on DNA..."
I first learned about him in high school, when I watched Jeff Goldblum in the movie "The Race for the Double Helix" or some such. Amazing, world-changing work that we take for granted these days. God rest him well.

[Doc]

I've met Watson before and he's pretty much that way in private too. 🙂

[Gary Gunnels]

Watson wrote the ego vehicle known as The Double Helix, not Crick. Watson is also famously known for being a jackass.

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