Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code

with science writer Matt Ridley

Date:	June 16, 2006
Run Time:	54 minutes
Speakers:	Matt Ridley
Topics:	Double Helix, Francis Crick, James Watson, Molecular Biology, Physics, Protein, World War II, consciousness, genetics

DOWNLOAD Audio:	41.mp3

Matt Ridley's biography traces Francis Crick's life from his childhood, through his famed scientific discovery of the genetic code, up to his last years spent contemplating consciousness.

Matt Ridley has been a scientist, a journalist, and a national newspaper columnist, and is the chairman of the International Centre for Life, in Newcastle, England. Matt Ridley is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Books by Matt Ridley:

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code, 2006	The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, 2010	The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, 2004