INQUIRER.net: Letter from DNA discoverer to be auctioned in NYC

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Letter from DNA discoverer to be auctioned in NYC Mar 24th 2013, 00:42 NEW YORK — Sixty years ago scientist Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son saying he and a colleague had discovered something "very beautiful" — the structure of DNA.   Now, the note and its hand-drawn diagrams are being auctioned off in New York. Christie's estimates the letter could fetch $1 million or more at the April 10 sale.   Crick's letter describes to his son how he and James Watson found the copying mechanism "by which life comes from life." It includes a simple sketch of DNA's double helix structure which Crick concedes he can't draw very well.   The seven-page handwritten letter from Francis Crick in Cambridge, England, t... Keep on reading: Letter from DNA discoverer to be auctioned in NYC Media files: health-science-DNA.jpg (image/jpeg)

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