DNA and Social Responsibility: Cataloguing the personal papers of Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004)

Project blog for the cataloguing and preservation of the papers of Maurice Wilkins and the King’s College London Department of Biophysics at the King's College London Archives. The project was undertaken at the College from May 2010-May 2011 with selected material from the archives later digitised as part of the Wellcome Trust Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics project.

KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Wellcome Digital LIbrary Project featured on BBC R...

KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Wellcome Digital LIbrary Project featured on BBC R...: The Wellcome Digital Library project was today featured on Radio 4's "Today" programme. The report by Fergus Walsh, medical correspondent of...
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KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Maurice Wilkins and the ultrasonic pursuit of the ...

KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Maurice Wilkins and the ultrasonic pursuit of the ...:   The scientific career of Maurice Wilkins did not solely focus on the structure and refinement of DNA. Having begun reading Physics a...
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KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Selecting Material for Digitisation: Glass Slides ...

KCL and the Foundations of Modern Genetics: Selecting Material for Digitisation: Glass Slides ...: Part of my role for the project is to select relevant material from the Biophysics collection for digitisation. The Biophysics collectio...
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    Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004): New Zealand born Nobel Prize winning biophysicist The Nobel Prize winning biophysicist is chiefly k...
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    Model building by Watson and Crick famously led to them being the first to that discover the structure of DNA was in fact in the form of a d...
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