THE SCULPTURE
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What is Life? 1943
Watson and Crick 1953
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The multitude of RNAs
A guide to the Sculpture
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THE SCULPTOR
Charles Jencks
?What is life? 2013
The DNA family
THE BOTANIC GARDENS
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A gift to the Nation
Why the sculpture was commissioned

The sculpture ?What is life? was commissioned from Charles Jencks to celebrate Science in Ireland,
to encourage everyone, especially young people, to understand science and the role of science in
society. Representing the flow of genetic information between DNA, RNA and protein, it was inaugurated
by James Watson on the 60th anniversary of the discovery of The Double Helix by Watson and his
colleague Francis Crick in April 1953. It represents for the first time in sculpture anywhere the
many extraordinary new revelations made in the last 30 years about the novel roles of RNA in
living organisms.


John and Grieg Gibson
metalsmiths extraordinaire
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