Francis Crick is the Kieckhefer Professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, regarded as the greatest biological advance of the twentieth century.

* Introduction * Prologue * The Gossip Test * The Baffling Problem * Rocking the Boat * The a Helix * How to Live with a Golden Helix * Books and Movies About DNA * The Genetic Code * Fingerprinting Proteins * Theory in Molecular Biology * The Missing Messenger * Triplets * Conclusions * Epilogue: My Later Years