"Six years ago today, Francis Crick died of colon cancer in San Diego at the age of 88. Most famous for his 1953 discovery (with James Watson) of the structure of DNA, Crick was also a keen rose cultivator, filling the garden of Wells Cottage, his summer retreat in Suffolk, with blooms. When the BBC wrote to him in the late 1980s to ask if he would participate in a proposed series 'Portrait of the Twentieth Century', Crick pithily replied 'Nice of you to ask me but I think I'd rather water my roses...'Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Wellcome Library Item of the month, July 2010: The name of the rose
"Six years ago today, Francis Crick died of colon cancer in San Diego at the age of 88. Most famous for his 1953 discovery (with James Watson) of the structure of DNA, Crick was also a keen rose cultivator, filling the garden of Wells Cottage, his summer retreat in Suffolk, with blooms. When the BBC wrote to him in the late 1980s to ask if he would participate in a proposed series 'Portrait of the Twentieth Century', Crick pithily replied 'Nice of you to ask me but I think I'd rather water my roses...'
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