May his Memory be Eternal! (However, he was an atheist, and no friend of the Orthodox Church, or even the Lutheran Church!)
I was in his department in Harvard grad school. He would not accept me as his student! (Anti-Christian bias?) However, I was accepted by someone at least as good, and received my PhD.
And I attended (and presented at!) Cold Spring Harbor Symposia as a faculty researcher. They served frog’s legs, which I loved!
Jim Watson was nasty all his life. But I believe that Cold Spring Harbor was wrong to dismiss him for racism. A simple antiracist statement would have been enough! After all, Jim Watson BUILT the modern-day Cold Spring Harbor!!
Thanks for the interesting details—one of the reasons FR is so great.
Was Crick an atheist too? Just wondering because the discovery to me as a believer just reinforces the awe and wonder of creation and all its many intricacies.
Also I recall reading somewhere (most likely an old FR post)
that Watson and Crick may have actually stolen the DNA
double helix idea from a fellow researcher, a female no less!