james watson, cloth version (the scientist of the week, part 4)
Written on November 8, 2009
last week i was contacted by a woman named hilary gooding. hilary is a textile artist working on a project involving quilts of prominent scientists with the aim of displaying them in museums in the UK next year. hilary wanted to use one of my 2006 photographs of james d. watson (nobel laureate (with francis crick) for the discovery of the structure of DNA) in her project. it was such an odd request i really had no choice but to say yes, and i admit i’m very curious to see how the finished project will end up.
hilary sent me photos of the result (below). the other people pictured are marie curie, charles babbage, michael faraday and francis crick.
Filed in: science,scientist of the week.