Francis Crick dies. Just put him under the "Great Men" heading under our links, the second Francis!

Related: Obit in The Independent.

Addendum: I received a complaint that for someone who laid the foundation for "gene expression" I'm not giving Crick his due.

1. The obits haven't come it.
   
2. Figure other bloggers would weigh in.
   
3. Watson tends to have the juicey quotes.
   

I will say I enjoyed Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul, though advances in neuroscience make broadsides into the "ghost in the machine" progressively more banal. Here is a timeline of Crick's life. One thing about Crick, I wish he hadn't coined the term The Central Dogma, the last word really isn't a good one to use for science! In any case, here is a graphical depiction of TCD, and a succinct verbal description. Funniest scientific dead-end in Crick's life? Probably Panspermia.

More obits:

Nick Wade in The New York Times. Another in The Scientist. NPR audio file. Nature weighs in here.