Includes: Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid. Pp. 737-8. * Genetic Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Pp. 964-967. In Nature Magazine, Vol. 171. Bound volume offered, Pp. 581-1168, weekly, April 4-June 27, 1953. 9¾x6½, library buckram.

The two seminal articles by Watson and Crick describing the the DNA molecule, that were to profoundly alter the understanding of the genetic process, and also containing the first illustrations of the double helix structure of the molecule. The first article is followed by the article "Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids" by M.H.F. Wilkins, A.R. Stokes and H.R. Wilson, with thanks and acknowledgement to Watson and Crick. The discovery of DNA was signature development in the understanding of genetics, marking the transition between two ages of what might be called the "classical age" of biology and a second "age" of molecular biology. Watson, Crick and Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medecine in 1962 "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material."