A showcase of Francis Crick's archives, including early drafts of the 1953 Watson and Crick papers, and a full copy of Crick's most influential unpublished papers.

Acquiring the Crick papers

David Pearson, Head of the Wellcome Library, discusses the acqusition of the Crick archive, and how they will be made freely accessible to historians, students and scientitsts. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1952 At the Cavendish

Francis Crick joined the Cavendish Laboratory in 1949, working with Max Perutz on X-ray crystallography studies of the structure of proteins. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1953 The double helix

James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA marks the beginning of a branch of science that we now know as molecular biology. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1953 DNA replication

Watson and Crick's double-helical model of DNA suggested a mechanism for the replication of DNA. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1955 From DNA to protein

Crick predicted the existence of 'adaptors', later found to be transfer RNA. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1961 The triplet code

Crick, Sydney Brenner and colleagues discovered that the genetic code is a triplet code. 01/03/03

The Crick papers: 1962 The Nobel Prize

Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 01/03/03

Crick and Cik: Archiving the Francis Crick papers

Archiving can be a glamorous business, discovers Chris Beckett, guardian of the Francis Crick papers. 10/11/03