Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins Autograph.

CRICK, Francis; James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins.

Item Number: 4350

New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Autographs of the discoverers of DNA. Boldly signed by Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins. Double matted and framed with photographs of each scientist. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 22 inches. Rare and desirable signed by all three Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his co-discovery of the structure of DNA. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact. Although Watson is most known for the discovery because of this book, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins also won the Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world.