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Reference code
K/PP178/15/1/1
Title
Photographs relating to DNA research, 1951-1963
Date(s)
- 1951 - 1963 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
88 items
Scope and content
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
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Existence and location of originals
A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.