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Critique of <i>The Prizewinners</i>. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Typescript (mimeograph, 3 sheets) with the title "Crit of 'The Prizewinners' in The Queen 2nd January 1963 by Angus Wilson".
Wilson's text offers colourful portraits of Perutz, Kendrew, Crick, Watson and Wilkins.
Crick - "too impatient for experiment and bubbling over with ideas" (p. 3) - is described as "almost a caricature of the obsessively talking, idea-throwing-out don with a lot of disarming boyishness and bounce," but "all the false hares and nutty suggestions, all the hours of exhausting listening and strained disagreement, are finally, miraculously, made infinitely worthwhile when a man like Dr Crick eventually talks himself into one of the great revolutionary scientific theories of the century" (p. 1).
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