Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Max Perutz

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Perutz, Max Ferdinand, 1914-2002 Medical Research Council
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1948-1982
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K/PP178/3/33
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Max Perutz. 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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Correspondence between Wilkins and molecular biologist Max Perutz, chiefly relating to comments about Perutz made by James Watson in The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968) and subsequent discussion of Perutz’s role in sharing information on King’s College London DNA research with Watson and Francis Crick. Also photocopy correspondence and related papers from the Medical Research Council (MRC), including the constitution of the MRC Biophysics Committee, 1948, and debate on the confidentiality or otherwise of MRC reports. Original file title ‘Perutz’.

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1948-1982

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1 file

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King's College London; Medical Research Council (MRC)

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

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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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