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- 1953 - 1955 (Creation)
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Photocopy manuscript draft article by Francis Crick, ‘The Fourier transform of a coiled coil’, with offprint of published article, Acta Crystallographica, Sept 1953. Two photocopies of manuscript draft letter from Wilkins to Crick, c 2000, referring to the original of the manuscript draft article (possibly subsequently sent to Crick), and suggesting a collaborative review of DNA history. Also a photocopy of ‘The structure of the hereditary material’ by Crick, published in Scientific American, Oct 1954, and draft article, ‘Statistical correlation of protein and ribonucleic acid composition’ by George Gamow and Martynas Ycas (subsequently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dec 1955), with covering letter to Crick from Ycas, Oct 1955
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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.