What Mad Pursuit (15 page)

My uncle Arthur Crick, who helped me financially.
(Author’s collection.)

Odile during the Second World War, just before we met.
(Author’s collection.)

My son Michael, at Stockholm, 1962.
(Author’s collection.)

Our house, “The Golden Helix,” 19-20 Portugal Place, Cambridge.
(Author’s collection.)

Myself with our two daughters,
Gabrielle
[left]
and Jacqueline,
taken about 1956.
(Author’s collection.)

Invitation to one of our parties, 1960.
(Author’s collection.)

Jim Watson
[left]
with me in front of our demonstration model of the DNA double helix, summer 1953. (From J. D. Watson’s
The Double Helix
, Atheneum, New York, 1968.)

Jim Watson, as he appeared
in the August 1954 edition of
Vogue
“with the bemused look
of a British poet.”
(Courtesy of Diana Edkin.)

Myself in 1956. The strange tie is that of the RNA Tie Club.
(Courtesy of Francis DiGennaro & Son, Baltimore, Md.)

A studio portrait of Rosalind Franklin, taken when she was about twenty-six.
(
Courtesy of Jenifer Glynn, Cambridge.
)       

Maurice Wilkins, about 1955.
[
Courtesy of Maurice Wilkins.
)     

J. D. Bernal, known to his Mends as “Sage.”
(
Courtesy of the Royal Society, London.
)     

Sir Lawrence Bragg—Willie to his close friends.
(Courtesy of the Royal Society,
London.)