Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to the preparation of DNA samples

Notes and articles relating to the preparation of DNA samples, including: article by Mary Renoll and Quentin Van Winkle, ‘’Physical-chemical studies on the interaction of surface-active agents with nucleoproteins’ from the Journal of the American Chemistry Society, Jun 1951; notes, ‘Papers of DNA from calf thymus according to directions of Dr N Simmons’, Jul 1954; article by Max Feughelman, Robert Langridge, William Etienne Seeds, Alexander Rawson Stokes, Herbert Rees Wilson, Clive Williams Hooper, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, Ralph K Barclay and Leonard D Hamilton, ‘Molecular structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid and nucleoprotein’, offprint from Nature, vol 175, 14 May 1955 (3 copies); 16pp notebook compiled by Wilkins, 1958, on DNA experiments; draft article on the scientific methodology of preparing DNA samples from calf thymus glands, ND. Also draft diagrams, graphs and statistics. Original file title ‘DNA Preparation’.

1951-1958

1 file

King's College London; Nature Publishing Group

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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.