Item K/PP178/15/3/1 - Photographs of the 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony

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K/PP178/15/3/1

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Photographs of the 1962 Nobel Prize ceremony

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  • 1962 (Creation)

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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)

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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.

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