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Autograph Letter by Francis Harry Compton Crick signed “Daddy” to his son Michael, outlining the revolutionary discovery of the structure and function of DNA
Cambridge, March 19, 1953
On Basildon bond blue writing paper, written on rectos and versos; seven pages
Estimated price: $1-2 million
Price realised: $6,059,750
The co-discoverer of the structure and function of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Francis Crick (1916-2004) was born in Northampton, England, in 1916. During World War II, he worked as a scientist for the British Admiralty; he left in 1947 to study biological research at the Strangeways Laboratory in Cambridge. In 1949, he transferred to the Cavendish Laboratory, headed by Nobel Laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg. He joined the new unit established by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to study protein structure using X-rays alongside future Nobel Laureates Max Perutz and John Kendrew. Continue reading