The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

by James Watson, ewey

$5,000 · Offered by Back Creek Books

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New York: Atheneum, 1968. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xvi, 1-2 , 3-226 227-237 pages. Inscribed and signed by Watson on preliminary blank leaf. Here is Watson's story of his work with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins--the three merging data from chemistry, physics, and biology--to solve the molecular structure of DNA, for which they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize

• Printing: first

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