Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with Bruce and Mary Fraser relating to chiefly to early DNA research

Correspondence with (Robert Donald) Bruce Fraser and Mary Fraser, former colleagues in the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, chiefly relating to the need to publicise Fraser’s 1952 unpublished structural model of DNA, following the publication of James Watson, The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968) and Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (Norton, New York, 1975). File also includes text of Wilkins’ unpublished article, ‘The relation of the King’s work to that at Cambridge’, and correspondence, 1999-2000, relating to exhibits in the Science Museum, London, and proposals for a DNA museum at King’s College London. Original file title ‘Fraser 1953 and 76 DNA.'

1953-2003

1 file

Fraser, (Robert Donald) Bruce; Fraser, Mary J.; King's College London

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

Part of this file contains personal data and is closed. The rest of the file is open and available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form. Restricted until 1 January 2080.

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.