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K/PP178/6/3/5
Title
Accounts, 1993, of Wilkins’ childhood interest in science and technology
Date(s)
- 1993 (Creation)
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Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Typescript annotated accounts of Wilkins’ childhood, specifically relating to his early interest in science and technology. Aspects of these accounts were used in chapter 1, ‘DistantShores’, in his autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)
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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.