AN ECONOMIST,
GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025 'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' Guardian '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.
| ISBN: | 9781800811072 |
| Publication date: | 3rd September 2026 |
| Author: | Matthew Cobb |
| Publisher: | Profile Books an imprint of Profile |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 608 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: science, technology and medicine |
AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025 'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' Guardian '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.
Crick features in the following genres: Biography: science, technology and medicine
Paperback, Hardback. £13.49, down from the £14.99 cover price. In Stock.
Crick was written by Matthew Cobb and published by Profile Books an imprint of Profile
Crick has 608 pages
£13.49, reduced from £14.99. In Stock.