Papers of M H F Wilkins: draft text, entitled ‘The secret pattern’, concerning Wilkins’ first reaction to ‘Photo 51’

  • Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
Date:
1992
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K/PP178/6/5/8
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Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)
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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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Draft text, entitled ‘The secret pattern’, concerning Wilkins’ reaction to Rosalind Franklin’s DNA x-ray diffraction image of B form DNA, later known as ‘Photo 51’, given to him by Raymond Gosling, Jan 1953. Aspects of this account were used in chapter 8, ‘The double helix’, in Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003).

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1992

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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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Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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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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