Francis Crick

Nobel Prize Genius Crick Was High on LSD When He Discovered the Secret of Life?

To go with the above article, I thought I'd include this one. It doesn't sound fully confirmed, but it hasn't been refuted by anyone I've seen yet. Francis crick was on LSD when he discovered DNA?

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The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.Crick, who died ten days ago [2004-07-28], aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD, then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy, to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.


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