Item K/PP178/3/39/5 - Published reviews, 1968, for James Watson’s book, The double helix

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K/PP178/3/39/5

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Published reviews, 1968, for James Watson’s book, The double helix

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  • 1968 (Creation)

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Press cuttings of reviews for James Watson’s book, The double helix: a personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1968), from publications including The New York Times, _New York Review of Books,Life_, The Guardian, New Scientist, _The Jewish Chronicle, Times Literary Supplement,Science, The Sunday Times_ and New Statesman. Also letter from Wilkins to Sunday Times journalist Murray Sayle, with corrections to Sayle’s article, ‘The race to find the secret of life’, May 1968, with Sayle’s acknowledgement, Sep 1968

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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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