Word: cricks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THEY STEPPED OUT of Jefferson Hall into the fog, dazed and crick-necked. The midyear examination was over and they had made it halfway through Economics 10, Harvard's most popular course. In the eerie, unseasonal mist, indifference curves and isocosts danced before them. Maybe "popular" is the wrong word...
...real origin of this concern was the discovery in 1953 at Cambridge University by Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that the pattern of all life forms is determined by a double-helical molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Since then other investigators have found ways of cutting a long nucleic-acid molecule, by chemical means, into shorter pieces that can then be recombined...
...into the future. In between he leads the way through a catalogue of human accomplishment, from Pythagoras on the mathematical laws that govern the universe to the revolutionary observations of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; from Newton's experiments on the diffraction of light to James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the key to the alphabet of life, the master molecule...
...rapidly growing interest and activity in brain research parallels an energetic, worldwide investigation of genetics that preceded James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. Indeed, many outstanding biochemists and microbiologists who helped lay the groundwork for that monumental breakthrough have recognized that the brain now represents science's greatest challenge. Some have announced their conversion to neuroscience, the discipline that deals with the brain and nervous system. The work of the neuroscientists has already produced an exponential increase in man's understanding of the brain-and a good...
...would man, or some distant intelligent beings, ever launch a panspermia project? To demonstrate technological capability, say Crick and Orgel-or, more probably, out of "some form of missionary zeal...