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Crick: A Mind in Motion
MATTHEW COBB
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EN SAVOIR PLUS
Résumé
A 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.
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Prix :
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45,00 $
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Auteur :
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MATTHEW COBB
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Crick: A Mind in Motion
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Date de parution :
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11 novembre 2025
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BASIC BOOKS
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SCIENCE-ESSAIS/HISTOIRE
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ISBN :
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9781541602885 (1541602889)
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Référence Renaud-Bray :
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21531744
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No de produit :
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4443931
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Crick: A Mind in Motion
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COBB, MATTHEW
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BASIC BOOKS
2025
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