File 54 - Photograph of Crick and Watson with model of double helix

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PH/I/54

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GB 2198 PH/I/54

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Photograph of Crick and Watson with model of double helix

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  • 1953 (Creation)

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1 photo photograph

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(1927-2012)

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ARPS.
This is the only photo ever taken of Francis Crick and James Watson with their model of the structure if DNA. Francis Crick is an Honorary Fellow of Caius College.

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Bequeathed to the College under his will.

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Antony Barrington Brown presented this print to the College on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its being taken.

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Large size, signed print with article by Antony Barrington Brown: 'Crick and Watson photographs: how it happened'.

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Copyright of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

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