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Francis Crick de Matt Ridley

Francis Crick

Autor Matt Ridley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2016
Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Francis Crick is the first biography of the eminent scientist, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA. Written by Matt Ridley, the award-winning author of the national bestseller Genome, Francis Crick traces his life from middle class mediocrity in the English Midlands through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his enormous success, providing “a considerably more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before.” (New York Times)
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061148453
ISBN-10: 0061148458
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Harper Perennial

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Francis Crick—the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life—will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer who uncovered the genetic code—the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things—acclaimed bestselling science writer Matt Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity in the English Midlands through a lackluster education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of thirty-one and its astonishing consequences. In the process, Ridley sheds a brilliant light on the man who forever changed our world and how we understand it.

Recenzii

“Matt Ridley’s Francis Crick perceptively and warmly recounts the extraordinary life of the 20th century’s most important biologist.” — James D. Watson
“A nimble biography.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A considerably more complete and colorful portrait of Crick than has existed before.” — Nicholas Wade, New York Times
“Thoughtful. . .aptly conjures a forgotten scientific landscape. . .” — New York Times Book Review
“Lucid and riveting . . . Completely captivating, a lively and deeply intriguing account of one of biology’s most imaginative scientists.” — Kay Redfield Jamison
“Matt Ridley’s book reads beautifully, the science flowing along with the life, to form a unity.” — Aaron Klug
“This is a wonderful book--deeply substantive, lucid, trenchant, and witty. It tells the biggest story in modern biology.” — David Quammen
“A fitting tribute to a…canonical figure in modern science” — Publishers Weekly
“Ridley has captured the wonder of an unparalleled scientific mind at work and at play.” — Nicholas Wade, New York Times
Praise for Eminent Lives Series: FRANCIS CRICK and CHARLES DARWIN — --
“The reader gets a strong sense of how these men lived, what they achieved and how they achieved it.” — San Francisco Chronicle
“Ridley captures Crick’s audacity, brilliance and, not least, eloquence…An excellent first biography” — Brenda Maddox, Sunday Times (London)
“Enjoyable…Ridley does an excellent job of escorting readers on [an] intellectual roller coaster ride.” — BioScience

Notă biografică

Matt Ridley's books-including The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, and most recently, Viral: the Search for the Origin of Covid-19 (with Alina Chan)-have sold over a million copies, been translated into thirty-one languages, and won awards. He was a member of the House of Lords from 2013 to 2021 and was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. He created the "Mind and Matter" column in The Wall Street Journal in 2010 and was a columnist for The Times. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ridley lives in Northumberland, UK.