Word: crick
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...Once I had the sentence 'I never saw Francis Crick in a modest mood,' I knew that I'd be able to stick it through...
...book has been criticized for its candid descriptions of the author's colleagues, particularly of Francis Crick, who shared the Noble Prize for the 1953 discovery along with Watson and Maurice Wilkins...
Watson said that he had originally entitled his book Honest Jim, but that the Harvard Press, which was at that time slated to publish the book, didn't like it. He then changed the title to Base Pairs, Watson said, but co-discoverer Crick wouldn't stand for that. He finally settled on The Double Helix...
Referring to the Harvard Corporation's controversial veto of the Harvard Press decision to publish his book, Watson said, "Harvard's lawyers said that Francis [Crick] might not like the book. They never came out and said that it was libelous; they just said that Crick might read it and be unhappy...
Watson describes his own shortcomings of laziness and lack of direction; his narrow escape from physical attack by a female crystallographer when he challenged her theories; the abrasive personality of talented Co-worker Crick; an incredible high school-level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow...