Crick's scientific career was delayed by wartime work designing mines, and at the time he was studying for his Ph.D. at Cambridge University and was not supposed to be working on DNA at all.

克里克的科学家生涯由于战时设计地雷而被耽搁，而且他在剑桥大学修学博士学位时压根就没想到要从事DNA相关工作。