[2] Returning to England, Speed joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) as a lorry driver.
However, her skills in German led to work as a code-breaker and translator at the Admiralty where she met Francis Crick in 1945.
Odile Crick worked as a teacher at what is now Anglia Ruskin University before the births of her daughters Gabrielle and Jacqueline.
[3] Francis Crick and James Watson asked her to draw an illustration of the double helix for their paper on DNA for Nature in 1953.
[3] The Odile Crick Memorial Exhibition of her art was held at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, on 12 October 2007.