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Papers of M H F Wilkins: collected papers relating to the history of DNA research

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Correspondence, notes, photographs and photocopied background information relating to the history of DNA research at King’s College London, including: notes made by Wilkins at a 1950 conference on protein structure, Cambridge; group photograph of attendees at an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, New Hampshire, 1951, including Wilkins and Erwin Chargaff; photocopies of a graph of the Bessel wave function of DNA, created by Alexander Rawson (‘Alec’) Stokes [1951]; article by Francis Crick, 'The packing of a-helices: simple coiled-coils’, offprint from Acta Crystallographica, Sep 1953; photographs relating to DNA research, including graphs, microscopic images, and x-ray diffraction images of DNA from herring sperm, calf thymus and sepia sperm; letter from the Medical Research Council to Max Perutz, 27 Apr 1954, concerning the disbanding of the Biophysics Committee; copy pages from Erwin Chargaff, Heraclitean Fire: sketches from a life before nature (Rockefeller University Press, New York, 1978), including his first impressions of Francis Crick and James Watson, 1952, with brief covering letter to Wilkins from Stanford Moore, Rockefeller University, Nov 1978.

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