Papers of M H F Wilkins: draft text relating to a 1951 scientific conference, Naples

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
Date:
1992
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K/PP178/6/5/15
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Draft accounts of Wilkins’ attendance at a scientific conference, Naples, Italy, 1951 (where he displayed his first clear crystalline x-ray pattern of DNA), also attended by James Watson. Aspects of this account were used in chapter 5, ‘Crystal genes’, in Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix(Oxford University Press, 2003). Also annotated ‘Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society', Volume 9, November 1963, with a biography of William Thomas Astbury (whom Wilkins first met at the Naples conference).

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1992

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King's College London

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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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