Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Leonard Hamilton, relating to DNA samples and the progress of DNA research

  • Hamilton, Leonard D. Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
Date:
1949-1968
Reference:
K/PP178/3/14/1
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Correspondence with Leonard Hamilton, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, USA, chiefly relating to the provision of DNA samples by Hamilton to the Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, and the progress of DNA research, including comment on the rivalry between the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and King’s College London, the progress of research, the possibility of funding for DNA research from the Rockefeller Foundation, and on fellow scientists, including Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, John Randall and Linus Pauling.

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1949-1968

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1 file

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King's College London; Hamilton, Leonard D.

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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 2053.

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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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