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WATSON, James Dewey (b.1928) and Francis Harry Compton CRICK (1916-2004). 'The Structure of DNA.' In Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, Volume XVIII, pp. 123-131. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: 1953
First American announcement of the discovery of DNA, signed by Crick and Watson. In June 1953, less than two months after the publication of their discovery in Nature, Cold Spring Harbor held a symposium on viruses. It had become immediately apparent that the novel double-helix structure of DNA proposed by Watson and Crick would have important implications for transmission and self-duplication of viruses. There are two papers, one by G.R. Wyatt on 'The Quantative Composition of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids as related to the newly proposed structure,' and another by A.D. Hersey on 'Functional differentation within particles of Bacteriophage T2' which address these questions. Watson attended the Symposium, although Crick did not; there is a picture of Watson wearing a pair of shorts among the photographs of attendees. In 1968, Watson became the Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Quarto (275 x 197mm). Illustrated with photographs, text-figures and tables. Original red cloth (one corner fractionally bumped), plain (?later) dust-jacket, later cloth box. Provenance: Delaphine G.R. Wyckoff (bacteriologist, Dean of Women at Wellesley College; ownership inscription on front pastedown).
First American announcement of the discovery of DNA, signed by Crick and Watson. In June 1953, less than two months after the publication of their discovery in Nature, Cold Spring Harbor held a symposium on viruses. It had become immediately apparent that the novel double-helix structure of DNA proposed by Watson and Crick would have important implications for transmission and self-duplication of viruses. There are two papers, one by G.R. Wyatt on 'The Quantative Composition of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids as related to the newly proposed structure,' and another by A.D. Hersey on 'Functional differentation within particles of Bacteriophage T2' which address these questions. Watson attended the Symposium, although Crick did not; there is a picture of Watson wearing a pair of shorts among the photographs of attendees. In 1968, Watson became the Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Quarto (275 x 197mm). Illustrated with photographs, text-figures and tables. Original red cloth (one corner fractionally bumped), plain (?later) dust-jacket, later cloth box. Provenance: Delaphine G.R. Wyckoff (bacteriologist, Dean of Women at Wellesley College; ownership inscription on front pastedown).
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