Perceptions in science: The making of an icon

Science

Volumn 300, Issue 5617, 2003, Pages 255-257

  De Chadarevian, Soraya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION;

DNA STRUCTURE; HISTORY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0037432746     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. See www.cshl.org/watson-archives/Previews/watson_ cd-141.jpg
2. On the Cambridge context of Watson and Crick's research, see S. de Chadarevian, Designs for Life: Molecular Biology After World War II (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2002).
3. J. D. Watson, F. H. C. Crick, Nature 171, 737 (1953).
4. M. H. F. Wilkins, A. R. Stokes, H. R. Wilson, Nature 171, 738 (1953).
5. R. Franklin, R. G. Gosling, Nature 171, 740 (1953).
6. J. D. Watson, F. H. C. Crick, Nature 171, 964 (1953).
7. F. H. C. Crick, J. D. Watson, Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. A Math Phys. Sci. 223, 80 (1954).
8. Archive staff, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, personal communication, June 2000.
9. "X-ray discovery," Varsity (Cambridge), 30 May 1953, p. 1.
10. F. Crick, letters to author, 2 June 1997 and 5 January 1988.
11. F. Crick, letter to author, 5 January 1998.
12. R. Hargreaves, Ed., Faces of the Century: A Sainsbury's Photographic Exhibition (A National Portrait Gallery Resource Pack for Teachers, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1999), p. 7.
13. Also A. Barrington Brown, telephone conversation with author, January 1995.
14. J. Watson to M. Delbrück, 21 May 1953 (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, archive), quoted in R. Olby, The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA (Dover, New York, 1994), p. 421.
15. J. Watson to M. Delbrück, 21 May 1953 (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, archive), quoted in R. Olby, The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA (Dover, New York, 1994), p. 421.
16. J. D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968).
17. A. Barrington Brown in conversation with author, January 1995.
18. See, for instance, the time line from 1953 to 2001 in L. Roberts et al., "A history of the Human Genome Project," [Science 291, 1195 (2001)]. Watson and Crick's 1953 discovery of the double helix is illustrated by the classic Barrington Brown photograph.
19. A longer version of this article appears in Isis 94(1), 90 (2003). Published by the University of Chicago Press. Copyright 2003 by the History of Science Society. All rights reserved.