Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Robert Olby relating to Olby’s book The path to the double helix

  • Olby, Robert, b.1933 Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
Date:
1967-1976
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K/PP178/5/8
Part of:
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Robert Olby relating to Olby’s book The path to the double helix. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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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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Typescript correspondence with Robert Olby relating to Olby’s book The path to the double helix (Macmillan, London, 1974), including a detailed account by Wilkins, May 1968, of his own and Rosalind Franklin’s work with x-ray diffraction images of A and B forms of DNA. Also Olby’s article, ‘Before the double helix’, published in New Scientist Jun 1968, and a copy of the Times Literary Supplement review of Olby’s book, Sep 1976. Original file title ‘Olby’.

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1967-1976

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1 file

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King's College London; Olby, Robert; New Scientist; Times Literary Supplement

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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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Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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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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