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WATSON, JAMES D. B.1928.
[CRICK, FRANCIS. 1916-2004.]
The Double Helix. New York: Scribner, 1998.

5 December 2018, 14:00 EST
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WATSON, JAMES D. B.1928.

[CRICK, FRANCIS. 1916-2004.] The Double Helix. New York: Scribner, 1998.
White cloth and boards, dust jacket. Signed by both Watson and Crick on title page. Slight soiling to dust jacket.

Watson and Crick came up with the double helical structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, building on the research of Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. The Double Helix is Watson's personal narrative of the events leading up to their Nobel Prize winning discovery, originally published in 1968.

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