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Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes and draft text for his autobiography, The third man of the double helix, relating to his working relationship with Rosalind Franklin

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Manuscript notes and typescript draft text for Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003), concerning the progress of DNA research in the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit at King’s College London, 1951-1953, including reference to Wilkins’ working relationship with Rosalind Franklin. Also annotated photocopy notes on DNA history, 1985, for the BBC dramatisation of the discovery of the structure of DNA, Life Story (retitled Race for the double helix for broadcast in the USA), broadcast 1987 in the Horizon science documentary series. Original file title ‘Jan 92 AutBiog Notes DNA’.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes and draft text for his autobiography, The third man of the double helix, relating to his working relationship with Rosalind Franklin

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