Francis Crick and James D. Watson Photograph Signed.

CRICK, Francis and James D. Watson.

Item Number: 12082

Signed black and white photograph of Francis Crick and James Watson with their DNA model at the Cavendish Laboratories in 1953. Double matted and framed, image measures 7.5 inches by 10 inches. The complete piece measures 13 inches by 15.5 inches. Signed images of Crick and Watson are rare.

Francis Crick and James 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).