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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with and about Vittorio Luzzati relating to DNA research

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Correspondence with and about Vittorio Luzzati, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules, Strasbourg, France, relating to the progress of DNA research, 1957-1962, and Luzzati and A Nicolaieff’s article, ‘The structure of nucleohistone and nucleoprotamines’, published in Journal of Molecular Biology (1963), intended as a critical response to Wilkins’ and Geoffrey Zubay’s earlier article, ‘X-ray diffraction studies of the molecular structure of nucleohistone and chromosomes’, Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 1, 1959. Also draft article, countering Luzzati’s criticisms, by Wilkins and Geoffrey Zubay, ‘X-ray Diffraction Study of the Structure of Nucleohistone and Nucleoprotamines’, subsequently published in Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 7, issue 6, 1963. Original file title ‘Luzzati question’.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with and about Vittorio Luzzati relating to DNA research

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