![]() Leading the unit to which Francis belonged was Max Perutz, an Austrian-born chemist who came to England in 1936. Although some of his closest colleagues realized the value of his quick, penetrating mind and frequently sought his advice, he was often not appreciated, and most people thought he talked too much. At that time he was thirty-five, yet almost totally unknown. But this was not true when, in the fall of 1951, I came to the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University to join a small group of physicists and chemists working on the three-dimensional structures of proteins. Already he is much talked about, usually with reverence, and someday he may be considered in the category of Rutherford or Bohr. It has nothing to do with his present fame. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason so to judge him. I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. ![]()
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