FRANCIS CRICK the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. He famously stated:
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place.
For many years, Crick held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. His later research centred on theoretical neurobiology and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness. Crick remained in this post until his death in 2004 at age 88; "he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end."
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