Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Francis Crick relating to DNA history

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004 Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Maddox, John Royden, 1925-2009
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1993-1998
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K/PP178/3/5/17
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Manuscript drafts of a letter from Wilkins to Crick, 1998, about DNA history and Crick’s possibly changing viewpoint; reply from Crick, 11 Oct 1998, denying a conscious change. Photocopies of an article, ‘Salk Institute investigated after claims of inhumane research’, published in Nature, Aug 1998, with reference to Crick. Also photocopy article by John Maddox, ‘Watson, Crick and the future of DNA’, published in Nature, Mar 1993, reporting a talk by Crick, Cold Spring Harbor, USA, on the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

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1993-1998

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1 file, 13 items

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King's College London; Nature

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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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