Matthew Cobb – Science and History
Matthew CobbProfessor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Author of a biography of Francis Crick, out in Nov 2025.
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Two exposures of the same sample of DNA made by Rosalind Franklin and her team – Photograph 49 (left) and Photograph 51 (right). Credits: ALISTAIR SPONSEL/KING’S COLLEGE LONDON ARCHIVES/DEPARTMENT OF BIOPHYSICS/GLASS AND ACETATE SLIDES (194...
The woman who gave birth to rabbits and the power of the maternal imagination
As I have previously said, I am currently writing a book called THE IDEA OF HEREDITY, which explains why it took humanity so long to realise that there were consistent similarities between parents and offspring. I’m currently writing a chap...
Two misinterpreted insights in the history of heredity
I am currently writing a book called THE IDEA OF HEREDITY, in which I explore why it took so long for humanity to realise that there was such a thing as heredity and what happened next.
Basically, ‘heredity’ was only used to describe simi...
Francis Crick and Nature
[As part of the publicity drive around the publication of my biography of Francis Crick, I submitted an article to Nature about Crick’s half-century long relationship with the journal, using all the material that was scattered through the b...
Matthew Cobb & Eric Topol: Discuss Crick Book
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Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Author of a biography of Francis Crick, out in Nov 2025.
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