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From the following article:
The Mona Lisa of modern science
Martin Kemp
Nature 421, 416-420(23 January 2003)
doi:10.1038/nature01403
Figure 1
LEGO model of the DNA double helix (in reverse!) by Eric Harshbarger (2001), who also used his mastery of the coloured units of LEGO to compose a 'pixelated' LEGO version of the Mona Lisa. (Images courtesy of E. Harshbarger.)
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Figure 2
Structure of DNA, drawn by Francis Crick's wife Odile Crick, which was published as the sole figure in Watson and Crick's seminal paper in Nature, 25 April 1953 (ref. 2).
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Figure 3
Anthony Barrington Brown's photograph of Watson and Crick with their model of DNA at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, 21 May 1953.
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Figure 4
Main image shows Maurice Wilkins' space-filling model of DNA. Inset: a series of lucid and inventive graphics by Keith Roberts appeared in Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene3.
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Figure 5
One of the specially cut plates used by Watson and Crick in their model of the structure of DNA.
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Figure 6
Cover of Nature human genome issue, published on 15 February 2001.
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Figure 7
Portrait of a DNA Sequence by Roger Berry (1998) at the Life Sciences Addition building, University of California, Davis.
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Figure 8
Spirals Time — Time Spirals by Charles Jencks (2000) at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Figure 9
Paintings of DNA models on a 'Millennium Collection' stamp, designed by Mark Curtis (1999–2000), from the UK Royal Mail's Scientists' Tale collection.
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Figure 10
Butterfly Landscape, The Great Masturbator in Surrealist Landscape with DNA by Salvador Dali, 1957–8. Private collection.
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Figure 11
Zoosemiotics: Primates, Frog, Gazelle, Fish (detail) by Suzanne Anker (1993).
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