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- 1953 - 2003 (Creation)
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Correspondence with (Robert Donald) Bruce Fraser (1924-2019) and Mary Fraser, former colleagues in the Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, King’s College London, chiefly relating to the need to publicise Fraser’s 1952 unpublished structural model of DNA, following the publication of James Watson, The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Atheneum, New York, 1968) and Anne Sayre, Rosalind Franklin and DNA (Norton, New York, 1975). File also includes text of Wilkins’ unpublished article, ‘The relation of the King’s work to that at Cambridge’, and correspondence, 1999-2000, relating to exhibits in the Science Museum, London, and proposals for a DNA museum at King’s College London. Original file title ‘Fraser 1953 and 76 DNA’. File includes personal data, CLOSED during the lifetime of Mary Fraser, or for review 2080
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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.