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Photographs relating to Wilkins’ life and DNA research, apparently assembled for possible inclusion in his autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003), including: x-ray diffraction images, mounted DNA fibres, models of DNA, and Patricia Wilkins. Original file title New Chapter System 21/05/2000

Photographs of Wilkins with models and laboratory equipment, taken during the filming of a BBC television documentary, ‘DNA, the secret of life’, 1958

Photographs of Wilkins receiving an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Four mounted photographs, produced in the Biophysics Department by Barry McCarthy, showing spherulites of RNA. Also a printed diagram, possibly of the replication of an RNA circle. Original title ‘35 long 6mm dia RNA Prints’

Photographic prints and acetate negatives of x-ray diffraction exposures of DNA produced by the Biophysics Department, King’s College London, including: diffraction exposures of A and B form DNA; Rosalind Franklin’s May 1952 image of B form DNA (‘Photo 51’); molecular models of DNA; densitometer exposures of DNA; graphs of the measurements taken from x-ray diffraction exposures of DNA

Photographs and negatives of Wilkins in his office, Department of Biophysics, King’s College London, taken shortly before Wilkins’ retirement

Photographs of Wilkins, chiefly informal snapshot photographs and 1960s portrait photographs

Snapshot photographs of Wilkins, his family and his hosts during a nuclear disarmament lecture tour of Japan

Images of Wilkins and his fellow DNA researchers Alexander Stokes, Herbert Wilson and Raymond Gosling at an event at King’s College London to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Also a group photograph of the attendees at a 40th anniversary gathering, Chicago, USA

Photographs of Wilkins and his colleagues, Department of Biophysics, King’s College London, including: group photograph of DNA researchers, early 1960s; office party, 1970s; Wilkins in his departmental office; Wilkins explaining a DNA model to Princess Anne, Chancellor of the University of London, 1983

Photographs and colour and black and white negatives, chiefly of the Wilkins family at home and on holiday

Photographs chiefly of the Wilkins family at the unveiling of a portrait commissioned by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Also photographs of Wilkins posing for the portrait, a self portrait by the artist, Juliet Kac, and her portrait of Bruce Kent, former head of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

Photographs, including: a King’s College London Biophysics Department Christmas party; a departmental cricket match; images of x-ray diffraction laboratory equipment; a 1950s sample of stretched DNA fibre on its original mount, photographed in the 1990s

Photographs of Wilkins, his wife Patricia Wilkins and fellow attendees, at the first conference of the International Union of Elementologists, Delhi, India

Photographs of the formal opening of the Franklin Wilkins Building, King’s College London, including Wilkins, James Watson, Watson Fuller, Struther Arnott, Principal Arthur Lucas, HRH Princess Anne and the commemorative plaque. Also photographs of equipment used during DNA research at King’s, 1950s, some on display for the formal opening

Photographs and transparencies of the 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony where Wilkins, Frances Crick and James Watson were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.  Photographs include the formal ceremony and reception, and other Nobel Prize recipients Max Perutz and John Kendrew (for Chemistry), and John Steinbeck (for Literature)