Francis J. Ryan, 1916-1963

Francis Crick 1916–2004

In March 1953, 31 years after Howard Carter’s astonishing first glimpse into Tutankhamun's tomb, an even more golden treasure was found. Francis Crick and Jim Watson shared that moment of discovery as they looked, for the first time, into the heart of all living things. They saw the structure of DNA, and their vision became the big bang of modern biology. Francis’ life in research began inauspi...

Francis Crick (1916–2004)

It has often been asserted that the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 was the starting point for molecular biology. Whether or not this is true, it cannot be doubted that Francis Crick became a dominant figure in the early years of molecular biology. In those years there was a continual interaction between theory and experiment, in which Crick paid a leading role. I was in Cambridge at ...

Francis H. C. Crick (1916-2004).

Michael J. Ryan

Michael J. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology in the Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, USA, and a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. His main research has been on sexual selection and communication and his 1985 book The Túngara Frog: A Study of Sexual Selection and Communication has become a classic in that fiel...

Tony J. Cunha, 1916-1992: a brief biography.