Papers of M H F Wilkins: data relating to the structure of the DNA double helix, with related published articles

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Seeds, William Etienne Stokes, A. R. (Alexander Rawson) Wilson, Herbert R. (Herbert Rees) Franklin, Rosalind Gosling, Raymond
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1953-1955
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K/PP178/2/28
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Manuscript notes, calculations, sketches and graphs relating to the structure of the DNA double helix, including sketches of sheared helices and ellipses and graphs of Bessel functions and of densitometer readings from x-ray diffraction photographs. Articles by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling, ‘The structure of sodium thymonucleate fibres. I the influence of water content; II the cylindrically symmetrical Patterson function; III the three-dimensional Patterson function’, offprints from Acta Crystallographica, Sep 1953 and Mar 1955, with manuscript annotations by Wilkins. Article, ‘Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid’ by Wilkins, William Seeds, Alexander Stokes, and Herbert Wilson, reprinted from Nature, Vol 172, p759, October 24, 1953 (2 copies). Original file title ‘Ellip & shear [?]’.

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1953-1955

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King's College London

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