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Papers of M H F Wilkins: press cuttings relating to DNA research

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Press cuttings relating to news reports on the progress of DNA research, 1953-1960, and to the award of the Nobel Prize to Wilkins, Francis Crick and James Watson, 1962, including; ‘Nearer secret of life’, News Chronicle, [1953], reporting on the recent work at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and at King’s College London; ‘Hopes of way to understanding of cancer’, Manchester Guardian, 1955; ‘Deoxyribonucleic acid – twenty ordinary letters but together they spell out the ultimate secret’, News Chronicle, 1957; ‘A Nobel Winner’s Regret: Helped Build Atom Bomb’, New York News, 1962; ‘Biology’s ‘Rosetta Stone’’, Newsweek, 1962; ‘Importance of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA is Examined’, New York Times, 1962; ‘He probed life’s secrets’, New York Herald Tribune, 1962; ‘Nobel Prize Awarded to Harvard Chemist’, New York Journal American, 1962. Also ‘Nucleic acids: master molecules’, in issue 118, Understanding science, 1964, and parts 1-3 of a factual strip cartoon, ‘Man-made viruses’, in the ‘Frontiers of science’ series, published in The Sun, c.1966.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: press cuttings relating to DNA research

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