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Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes, article abstracts and diagrams, chiefly prepared for reports, articles and addresses relating to DNA research

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Manuscript notes, article abstracts and diagrams relating to DNA research chiefly prepared for reports and addresses, including: typescript note, 9 Aug 1955, on recent collaborative work between King’s College London and the Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, on ascertaining the structure of DNA, presented to a meeting of DNA researchers, Culoz, France, 30 Jul 1955; brief Nature article, 31 Mar 1956, on a Biochemical society symposium, ‘The structure of nucleic acids and their role in protein synthesis’, 18 Feb 1956, at which Wilkins reported on recent work at King’s; typescript ‘Notes on biological significance of DNA structure determination and other items’, dated 12 Nov 1957; list of points for filming relating to the history of the discovery of the structure of DNA, possibly compiled by Wilkins for the Shell Film Unit [1958]; an address given in Brussels [possibly linked to Expo 1958, Brussels]; talk given at Battersea College of Technology, Dec 1958, and at Bedford College, Dec 1959; typescript abstract of article by Robert Langridge, Herbert Wilson, Clive Hooper, Wilkins and Leonard Hamilton, ‘The molecular configuration of deoxyribonucleic acid. I. X-ray diffraction study of a crystalline form of the lithium salt’, printed in Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 2, 1960; typescript abstract of article by Robert Langridge, Donald Marvin, William Seeds, Herbert Wilson, Clive Hooper, Wilkins and Leonard Hamilton, ‘The molecular configuration of deoxyribonucleic acid. II. Molecular models and their Fourier transforms’, published in Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 2, 1960; typescript notes (undated), ‘High resolution X-ray diffraction data from crystalline lithium DNA’, with covering note from ‘Don’ (Donald Arthur Marvin).

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: notes, article abstracts and diagrams, chiefly prepared for reports, articles and addresses relating to DNA research

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