Francis Crick / Biologist
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1 - My mother's ambitions for me
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The story was that- that she got her sister, my aunt, I think it was, to carry me to the top of the house so I would rise to the top. She was given to these little superstitious things so I always thought this was rather a funny story to illustrate, but it did show quite clearly that she was ambitious for me when she knew nothing about me at all, except I was a boy, that’s all about the information she had, so- I don’t know if would have done the same if it has been a girl.
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Christopher
Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
In 1993 he and his wife, Lotte, made a series for BBC2 called 'Seven Wonders of the World', in which outstanding scientists were invited to talk about themselves and their own seven wonders... Francis Crick declined to play this particular game (on the basis that 'everything is wonderful'), but he did agree to spend a couple of hours talking about his life and and work. The footage did not appear in the 'Seven Wonders' series, and has never been publicly shown. When Crick died in the summer of 2004, BBC TV kindly gave permission for it to be included in 'Peoples Archive'.
Technical note: the videotapes from which the Peoples Archive streaming version has been prepared had timecode-in-vision in the lower third of the picture. We have reframed the material to exclude this timecode because it is distracting, although this does mean that the image is sometimes a more extreme close-up than either director or cameraman ever intended!
In 1993 he and his wife, Lotte, made a series for BBC2 called 'Seven Wonders of the World', in which outstanding scientists were invited to talk about themselves and their own seven wonders... Francis Crick declined to play this particular game (on the basis that 'everything is wonderful'), but he did agree to spend a couple of hours talking about his life and and work. The footage did not appear in the 'Seven Wonders' series, and has never been publicly shown. When Crick died in the summer of 2004, BBC TV kindly gave permission for it to be included in 'Peoples Archive'.
Technical note: the videotapes from which the Peoples Archive streaming version has been prepared had timecode-in-vision in the lower third of the picture. We have reframed the material to exclude this timecode because it is distracting, although this does mean that the image is sometimes a more extreme close-up than either director or cameraman ever intended!
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Biography
The late Francis Crick, one of Britain's most famous scientists, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. He is best known for his discovery, jointly with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, of the double helix structure of DNA, though he also made important contributions in understanding the genetic code and was exploring the basis of consciousness in the years leading up to his death in 2004.
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