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A physicist no longer
Francis Crick
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| 41. Publishing papers in Nature | 1408 | 00:49 | |
| 42. Reactions to the papers we published | 1334 | 00:58 | |
| 43. The beauty of the double helix model | 1725 | 00:30 | |
| 44. Life Story - a dramatisation of our work on DNA | 1181 | 01:23 | |
| 45. Gradual acceptance of the structure of DNA | 959 | 01:09 | |
| 46. Elegance and beauty in scientific theories | 1003 | 01:50 | |
| 47. Mathematics is a discipline in its own | 1355 | 01:17 | |
| 48. A physicist no longer | 1 | 1138 | 00:25 |
| 49. Looking at the world in a different way | 1019 | 00:34 | |
| 50. Interest in the brain generates many questionable theories | 681 | 02:00 |
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Well, I started as a physicist. But remember, I’m not really a physicist anymore because physics in… in these… in those 50 or more years has changed enormously, and the physics I learned was very old-fashioned physics and is very out-of-date now. So, it’s only that I started off with a background in physics. And so I don’t think I should be thought of as a physicist in those terms. And I had to learn, of course, about biology and learn to think in a different sort of way.
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.
Title: A physicist no longer
Listeners: 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.
Tags: physicist, physics, career, biology
Duration: 25 seconds
Date story recorded: 1993
Date story went live: 24 January 2008
