AN ECONOMIST GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 Shortlisted for the Hatchards
First Biography Prize 2025 'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of
20th-century science' Guardian Books of the Year 'Brilliant and inspiring. A landmark
biography' Adam Rutherford Francis Crick was a restless relentless thinker as fascinated by
Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner workings of the
brain. Yet for all his drive he was galvanised by collaboration: with Jim Watson on DNA with
artists in Cambridge and California and with his wife Odile who drew the figure of the double
helix that illuminated his most famous discovery. It was his debates and conflicts with these
collaborators that powered a mind in motion. Meticulously researched and shot through with
insight and electrifying detail Matthew Cobb reveals the man who changed our view of life
forever. Crick is the first major biography of one of the twentieth century's most exciting
minds.
