1953: Crick and Watson propose the double helix model
with hydrogen bonds between purines and pyrimidines.
1958: Crick suggests that during protein formation, amino
acids are carried to the growing polypeptide by an adaptor
molecule containing nucleotides, and that this adaptor
fits on this RNA template. Thus Crick describes tRNA.
1961: Crick, Barnett, Brenner, and Watts-Tobin show that a
frame of three-letters of nucleotide bases constitute
the genetic language (specify an amino acid or start/end
sequences).
1962: Nobel prizes awarded to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins for
structural studies of DNA.
1966: Crick proposes the "wobble" hypothesis to explain abnormal
nucleotide base bonding.
1966: "Of Molecules and Men", by Francis Crick, University
of Washington Press
1988: "What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery",
by Francis Crick, Basic Books, Inc. N.Y.