That's the Way I See It

HOCKNEY'S VISUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY INSCRIBED XMAS 1993 BY FRANCIS CRICK TO WIFE ODILE, THE ARTIST WHO DREW DNA DOUBLE HELIX FOR NATURE 1953 PAPER.

22x27 inch hardcover, blue cloth boards with yellow image stamped to cover, yellow spine title, color pictorial endpapers, 248 pp, 343 color and black & white images. Inscribed and signed by Francis Crick on half title, To my darling Odile, for being so wonderful especially when things are difficult. All my love Francis Xmas '93.Very good in very good jacket with small chip top of spine.

DAVID HOCKNEY (born 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Hockney has owned residences and studios in Bridlington and London as well as two residences in California, where he has lived intermittently since 1964: one in the Hollywood Hills, one in Malibu.

FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK (1916 2004) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for understanding DNA structure and functions. Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. During the remainder of his career, he held the post of J.W. Kieckhefer Distinguished Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. His later research centered on theoretical neurobiology and attempts to advance the scientific study of human consciousness.

ODILE CRICK (1920 2007) was a British artist best known for her drawing of the double helix structure of DNA discovered by her husband Francis Crick and his partner James D. Watson in 1953. She was an art student in Vienna when the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938. Returning to England, Speed joined the Women's Royal Naval Service where she became a code-breaker and translator at the Admiralty where she met Francis Crick in 1945: they were married in 1049. Francis Crick and James Watson asked her to draw an illustration of the double helix for their paper on DNA for Nature in 1953. The sketch was reproduced widely in textbooks and scientific articles and has become the symbol for molecular biology. Terrence J. Sejnowski of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies said, "It may be the most famous [scientific] drawing of the 20th century, in that it defines modern biology." Her only other scientific illustration was a drawing of a girl running that appeared in one of her husband's last papers, an article in Nature Neuroscience on consciousness. When Francis Crick became a professor at the Salk Institute in the 1970s, the Cricks moved to California. Odile Crick outlived her husband and died from cancer in La Jolla, California, aged 86. The Odile Crick Memorial Exhibition of her art was held at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, on 12 October 2007. "Odile helped to develop his [Francis Crick's] interest in art and literature, ran their households, hosted exuberant parties and raised their children. In short, she provided an environment in which Crick had the luxury of devoting all of his energy to his intellectual life."--Georgina Ferry, A Deep Dive into Francis Crick's Personality, NATURE Vol. 647, pp 29-31, 2025.

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Publisher: Chronicle Books

Year: 1993

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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