Crick and Watson shared a Nobel Prize with Maurice Wilkins. Wilkins' colleague Rosalind Franklin, whose X-rays provided the final proof of DNA is often forgotten. She died in 1958, and her death solved an awkward problem for the Nobel committee, since the Prize can only be split three ways and cannot be awarded posthumously
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James Watson went on to write a best-seller The Double Helix about the discovery that made Nobel Laureates of himself and Crick. The book was notable as much for its acidic insights into his partner's personality as for its scientific content
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30 years after Crick and Watson's discovery, scientists had successfully used their findings to develop new techniques in biotechnology. Their discovery had opened up a whole new scientific field: genetic engineering
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The latest advances in genetic technology have created a multi-billion dollar industry that is striving to improve medicines, food and materials for industry. Tomorrow's brave new world will see a dramatic increase in the use of human genes to fight off disease
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Crick left Britain for tax reasons, and continued his research in California. In perhaps his most ambitious project yet, he came up with some novel theories about the way the brain works
