Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with John Kendrew, on topics including Kendrew’s work and the history of DNA

  • Kendrew, John Cowdery, 1917-1997 Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
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1957-1976
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K/PP178/3/19
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with John Kendrew, on topics including Kendrew’s work and the history of DNA. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Correspondence between Wilkins and biochemist and crystallographer John Cowdery Kendrew, with related papers, including a detailed assessment by Wilkins of Kendrew’s work compiled for the Royal Society, 1959, and comment on: the size and staffing of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge; James Watson, The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968); Kendrew’s work as editor of Journal of Molecular Biology; the running of the Molecular Biology Working Group; international scientific protest at the detention of the Russian geneticist Zhores Medvedev.

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1957-1976

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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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