Photographs relating to the staff and premises of the Biophysics Unit/Department of Biophysics

Uncaptioned photographs relating chiefly to the staff and premises of the Biophysics Unit/Department of Biophysics, including: exterior views of the construction of the new Wheatstone Physics Lab in the basement of the main King’s Building, Strand Campus, c 1950; a staff cricket match, c 1952; photographs of Raymond Gosling, Rosalind Franklin and John Randall; Christmas decorations featuring photographs of staff superimposed onto DNA space filled models, with Maurice Wilkins as an angel and John Randall as Father Christmas, photographed next to press cuttings relating to Wilkins’ Nobel Prize award, 1962; exterior views of the building at 26-29 Drury Lane and the progress of internal refurbishment work, c 1963; new laboratories at 26-29 Drury Lane, showing staff and equipment, c 1964; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother at the formal opening of the Drury Lane biophysics laboratories, 1964.

Two micro-negative reels of photographic film, c 1975, showing teaching in an unidentified classroom and an unidentified building exterior. Also 15 glass negatives with related photographic prints, possibly for teaching on the history of science, including images of the biophysics laboratories, equipment and staff, and space filled models of DNA. Mounted photographs (5 items) for a display on the Drury Lane laboratories, including exterior views of the building in 1963 and 1992.

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1949-1992

2 boxes (12 files), plus 5 small boxes Photographic prints

King's College London

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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 the Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics programme.