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WATSON, JAMES DEWEY, and FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." [WITH]: WILKINS, MAURICE H.F., ALEXANDER R. STOKES & HERBERT R. WILSON. "Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids." [WITH]: FRANKLIN, ROSALIND E. & R.G. GOSLING. "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate." Offprint from: Nature, Vol. 171, p 737, April 25, 1953.
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WATSON, JAMES DEWEY, and FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK.
"Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." [WITH]: WILKINS, MAURICE H.F., ALEXANDER R. STOKES & HERBERT R. WILSON. "Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids." [WITH]: FRANKLIN, ROSALIND E. & R.G. GOSLING. "Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate." Offprint from: Nature, Vol. 171, p 737, April 25, 1953. 8vo. 13, [1] pp. Single quire stapled at spine, with tipped in final leaf as issued. Housed in a cloth and board folder. Single vertical fold, lighter horizontal fold, a few small spots to first and last leaf, 1 spot touching last 2 leaves, corner of last 5 leaves creased.
Provenance: Ownership inscription of Maurice S. Fox, geneticist and professor emeritus of biology at MIT.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE OF DNA, the paper for which Crick, Watson & Wilkins were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962, the rare three-paper offprint issue, signed by Crick and Wilkins at head of first paper, and by Wilson and Stokes at end of their paper on page 9, much rarer than the single-paper offprint. The discovery of DNA was a race between research groups working independently, and the present offprint contains the work of the three teams involved; the first being Crick & Watson's paper which identifies the double helix structure of DNA, the second by M. Wilkins, Stokes and H.R. Wilkins which explains how the structure divides before mitosis so that each strand can act as a cell, and the third, by Franklin & Gosling, contains the key data that Crick & Watson used to determine the structure used to formulate the model of DNA.
Dibner Heralds of Science (2nd ed) 200; Garrison & Morton 256.3; Grolier Medicine 99; Judson The Eighth Day of Creation pp 161-170, 580-81; Nobel, the Man and His Prizes pp 201-2.
Provenance: Ownership inscription of Maurice S. Fox, geneticist and professor emeritus of biology at MIT.
PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE OF DNA, the paper for which Crick, Watson & Wilkins were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962, the rare three-paper offprint issue, signed by Crick and Wilkins at head of first paper, and by Wilson and Stokes at end of their paper on page 9, much rarer than the single-paper offprint. The discovery of DNA was a race between research groups working independently, and the present offprint contains the work of the three teams involved; the first being Crick & Watson's paper which identifies the double helix structure of DNA, the second by M. Wilkins, Stokes and H.R. Wilkins which explains how the structure divides before mitosis so that each strand can act as a cell, and the third, by Franklin & Gosling, contains the key data that Crick & Watson used to determine the structure used to formulate the model of DNA.
Dibner Heralds of Science (2nd ed) 200; Garrison & Morton 256.3; Grolier Medicine 99; Judson The Eighth Day of Creation pp 161-170, 580-81; Nobel, the Man and His Prizes pp 201-2.

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