Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1972 - 2000 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
52 items and 9 slides
Scope and content
Annotated cartoons drawn by Wilkins to illustrate his King’s College London lectures on ‘The social impact of the biosciences’, 1972-2000, and his Eddington lecture series on the history of science, 1978, given at Cambridge University. Images include Francis Crick and James Watson contemplating the divisions in Western culture; uncorking the bottle of the secrets of life with a DNA helix-shaped corkscrew; devils of various social pressures hampering the scientist on his ascent to knowledge; the real and apparent differences between medieval and modern world views
General Information
Name of creator
Repository
Language of material
Script of material
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.