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K/PP178/3/5/9
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Copy letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick, [1953], relating to draft articles for Nature on the structure of DNA
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- [1953] (Creation)
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Photocopy personal letter from Wilkins to Francis Crick (undated), with suggested modifications to Crick and James Watson’s draft article (‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’, published in Nature, 25 Apr 1953, Vol 171 No 4356), and reference to difficulties preparing the text of the King’s College London Biophysics Unit article (Wilkins, Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson, ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids’, published in the same issue of Nature)
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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.