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K/PP178/4/2/15
Title
Three articles announcing the discovery of the structure of DNA, by Crick and Watson, by Wilkins, Stokes and Wilson, and by Franklin and Gosling, Apr 1953
Date(s)
- 1953 Apr (Creation)
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2 items
Scope and content
Additional offprints of the three articles announcing the discovery of the structure of DNA, published in Nature, 25 Apr 1953: Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey Watson, ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid’; Wilkins, Alexander Rawson (‘Alec’) Stokes and Herbert Rees Wilson, ‘Molecular structure of deoxypentose nucleic acids’; Rosalind Elsie Franklin and Raymond Gosling, ‘Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate’. Two copies, one signed by Wilkins, Gosling and Michael Spencer
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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.