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WATSON, James Dewey (1928-) and Francis Harry Compton CRICK (1916-2004). "Molecular structure of nucleic acids." In: Nature , vol. 171, no. 4356, Supplement: Recent Scientific and Technical Books, pp. 737-741, April 25, 1953, London: Fisher, Knight & Co. Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1953. WATSON and CRICK. "Genetical implications of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid," Nature , vol. 171, no. 4361, Supplement: Recent Scientific and Technical Books, pp. 964-967, May 30, 1953. London: Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd., for Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1953. Whole volume, 8 o (248 x 168 mm). Original blue pebbled cloth (inner hinges reinforced). JOURNAL ISSUE OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF DNA -- THE FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF ALL LIFE -- THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES. Crick and Watson published four papers on the subject in 1953. Their first two papers, found in this volume of Nature , were written within only a few weeks of each other. In the first paper the double helix structure is identified; the second paper explains the specific nature of the double helix that allows for the process of genetic transmission. Vagaries and omissions in the first paper outlining their method of deduction are in the second replaced by an explicit and concise description of the biologically important features of the proposed structure. Despite some remaining uncertainties about the unproved nature of that structure, Crick and Watson felt confident enough to postulate that their discovery would "help to solve one of the fundamental biological problems -- the molecular basis of the template needed for genetic reproduction." Dibner Heralds of Science 200; Garrison-Morton 256.3. Also included in this volume are: Maurice WILKINS, A.R. STOKES and H.R. WILSON, "Molecular Structure of Deoxpentose Nucleic Acid," pp. 738-40 and Rosalind FRANKLIN, Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate," pp. 740-41. [ With: ] FRANKLIN, Rosalind and R.G. GOSLING. "Evidence for 2-Chain Helix in Crystalline Structure of Sodium Deoxyribonucleate." In: Nature , vol. 172, no. 4639, pp. 156-7. London: Macmillan and Co., 1953. Whole volume, 8 o . Green library buckram. Provenance : North Staffs Technical College (bookplate). (2)