Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005

Remembering Francis Crick

By Oliver Sacks

I read the famous 'double helix' letter by James Watson and Francis Crick in Nature when it was published in 1953—I was an undergraduate at Oxford then, reading physiology and biochemistry. I would like to say that I immediately saw its tremendous significance, but this was not the case for me or, indeed, for most people at the time.



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