The Nature of Viruses: The Biophysics and Biochemistry of Viruses (CIBA Foundation Symposium).

CRICK, Francis and Watson.

Item Number: 2040

London: J. & A. Churchill , 1957.

First edition of James Watson and Francis Crick’s Virus Structure. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both James Watson and Francis Crick. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

Presented as the first paper at the prestigious 1956 Ciba Foundation. symposium and the first paper in this collection, this seminal work— their "last direct collaboration" (Ridley)—revealed Watson and Crick’s theory of virus structure, a "great success" (Judson, 316).