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

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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’.

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