01764nam a22002057a 4500 20260304095150.0 260304b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781541602885 AL 925 COBC Mathew Cobb 257610 Crick : a mind in motion New York Basic Books 2025 viii,595p. HB 24x16cm General IN-67611 ₹2659.96 ₹ ₹2659.96 - major new biography of Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick’s, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the structure of DNA made Crick world-famous. But neither that chance meeting nor that discovery made Crick who he was. As Matthew Cobb shows in Crick, it is another chance encounter, with a line from the writing of Beat poet Michael McClure, that reveals Crick’s character: “THIS IS THE POWERFUL KNOWLEDGE,” it shouted. Crick, having read it, would keep it with him for the rest of his life, a token of his desire to solve the riddles of existence. John Keats once accused scientists of merely wanting to “unweave a rainbow,” but it was an irrepressible, Romantic urge to wonder that defined Crick, as much as a desire to find the basis of life in DNA and the workings of our minds. For the first time ever, Cobb presents the full portrait of Crick, a scientist and a man: his triumphs and failings, insights and oversights. Crick set out to find the powerful knowledge. Almost miraculously, he did. Swinging Sixties 257611 Interlude 257612 ddc BK 240998 240998 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEN SE SE 2026-01-27 amazon.in 2659.96 0 925 COBC SE000234 2026-03-04 09:55:23 2659.96 2026-01-27 BK