Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Leonard Hamilton with related papers, chiefly concerning DNA research

Correspondence with Leonard Hamilton, of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, USA (from 1963 Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), and related papers, including: Hamilton supplying Wilkins with DNA samples, 1960-1963; Hamilton’s suggested amendments to Wilkins’ Nobel lecture, Jan 1963; typescript draft article by Hamilton, Watson Fuller and E Reich, ‘X-ray diffraction and molecular model building studies of the interaction of actinomycin with nucleic acids’, subsequently published in Nature, May 1963; references for Hamilton by Wilkins, including reference for Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1963; typescript draft article by Barry Bloom, Hamilton and Merrill Chase, ‘The effects of mitomycin C on the cellular transfer of delayed-type hypersensitivity in the guinea pig’, subsequently published in Nature, Feb 1964; typescript synopsis of lectures given at a ‘Seminar on topics in biophysics’, Columbia University, New York, USA, Jun-Jul 1964, including ‘The crystal physics and physical properties of nucleic acids’ by Wilkins; comment, 1966-1967, on James Watson’s draft account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, subsequently published as The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968). Originally half of a large file entitled ‘Hamilton 1958-1967’.

1961-1967

1 file

Hamilton, Leonard D.; King' s College London; Fuller, Watson; Reich, E.; Bloom, Barry R.; Chase, Merrill; Nature

Part of this file contains personal data and is closed. The rest of the file is open and available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Restricted until 1 January 2043.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.