B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S J A N U A R Y 2 0 2 4 29 CRICK AND WATSON "WERE FOR 20TH-CENTURY BIOLOGY WHAT DARWIN AND HIS CIRCLE WERE FOR THE 19TH" 29. CRICK, Francis H.C., WATSON, James D. Signed DNA model cards. No place, circa 1987. Two cards. Each card measures 6 by 4 inches, penned and signed on the rectos. Together with 7 by 11-inch photocopy of the April 25, 1953 article in Nature, two pages on two leaves stapled once in the upper left corner, signed by both Crick and Watson on the first page. Beautifully framed. $6500 Two cards, one signed by Francis Crick with his drawing of the DNA double helix, the other signed by James Watson, along with his drawing of the same. (The card that Watson has signed has his name printed beneath his signature, along with “Nobel Laureate, Medicine, 1962” and the date “December 4, 1987.”) Together with a photocopy of the April 25, 1953 Nature article they co-authored, titled “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids,” signed by both of them. Crick and Watson “were for 20th-century biology what Darwin and his circle were for the 19th… both received accolades for their pioneering work, culminating in the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1962, awarded jointly to Crick, Watson and Maurice Wilkins” (ODNB). Watson was later named head of the Human Genome Project at NIH before becoming director and president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Crick, who became part of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, pursued research on the relationship between DNA and proteins. The accompanying photocopy of Crick and Watson’s April 25, 1953 article in Nature, titled “Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids,” is signed by both Crick and Watson. This article became the first published work to introduce the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, and includes a printed diagram of that model, which both Crick and Watson have sketched by hand on the cards that they have signed. Second page of photocopied article with small tape repair on verso. Signed cards fine.
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