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...Secret of Life James D. Watson wrote a very personal piece about the death of his colleague Francis Crick [Aug. 9]. In a cover story 33 years ago, TIME described their exhilaration and the impact of their breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA [April...
...Wildly excited, two men dashed out of a side door of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory ... and ducked into the Eagle, a pub where generations of Cambridge scientists have met to gossip about experiments and celebrate triumphs. Over drinks, James D. Watson, then 24, and Francis Crick, 36, talked excitedly, Crick's booming voice damping out conversations among other Eagle patrons. When friends stopped to ask what the commotion was all about, Crick did not mince words. 'We,' he announced exultantly, 'have discovered the secret of life!' Brave words?and in a sense, incredibly true ... On that late winter...
Only James Watson could turn the eulogy of a friend into an excuse to denigrate religion [Aug. 9]. Francis Crick's "good-natured arrogance," as Watson called it, is nothing compared with Watson's opulent truculence. Watson referred to Crick's longtime hostility to religious revelation and said his colleague viewed religion as "perpetuating mistakes from the past." Watson wrote that Crick preferred to rely on observation and experimentation. But any conclusion about the nature of truth that relies solely on observation and experimentation cannot be a valid statement if it is based on those two principles alone. C. DONALD...
DIED. FRANCIS CRICK, 88, Nobel-prizewinning British scientist who, with American James Watson, discovered the spiral double-helix structure of DNA in 1953; in San Diego. (See item below...
...death of FRANCIS CRICK deprives the world of a remarkable scientist and conversationalist whose forceful voice and overpowering laugh made him the focal point of any room that he chose to occupy. From the morning of Feb. 28, 1953, when he and I discovered the double-helical structure of DNA--and showed that the secret of life was a large molecule--he held court over the new field of research that this discovery unleashed. Exuding an Edwardian elegance of logic as well as dress, he instantly brought to mind the good-natured arrogance of Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw...