Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes on Wilkins’ work on the Manhattan Project, Berkeley, 1944-1945, and his return to the UK

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
Date:
1994-1997
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K/PP178/6/4/1
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes on Wilkins’ work on the Manhattan Project, Berkeley, 1944-1945, and his return to the UK. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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.

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Manuscript research notes and annotated typescript accounts of Maurice Wilkins’ work on the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project, University of California at Berkeley, USA 1944-1945; his return to the UK to work with John Turton Randall at the University of St Andrews; his move to King’s College London. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 3, ‘In a world at war’ and chapter 4, ‘Randall’s circus’, Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003).

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1994-1997

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1 file

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King's College London

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

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Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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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.

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