Papers of M H F Wilkins: invitations to the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science conference, ‘The social impact of modern biology’, and related papers

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Myrdal, Gunnar Adams, Winifred Kaplan, Martin M. Fuller, Watson, b.1935 Maddox, John, 1925-2009 de Hemptinne, Y. Cowling, Andrew Stoker, Michael Beale, Geoffrey H. Fast, Helen B.
Date:
1970-1971
Reference:
K/PP178/11/1/14
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Copy typescript letters from Maurice Wilkins to potential speakers for the conference, ‘The social impact of modern biology’, held by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS), 26-28 Nov 1970, including letters to Francis Crick, Linus Pauling, James Watson, Joseph Rotblat, Sir Harold Himsworth, Jacques Monod, Max Perutz, Anthony Wedgwood Benn and Lionel Penrose. Also correspondence relating to arrangements for the conference, including the involvement of the British Pugwash Group, and the Council for Biology in Human Affairs.

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1970-1971

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King's College London; British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS); Wilkins, Maurice; Myrdal, Gunnar; Adams, Winifred; Kaplan, Martin M.; Fuller, Watson; Maddox, John; de Hemptinne, Y.; Cowling, Andrew; Stoker, Michael; Beale, Geoffrey H.; Fast, Helen B.

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Part of this file contains personal data and is closed. The rest of the file is open and available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Restricted until 1 January 2087.

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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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