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The Francis Crick Papers

Title:
"A Structure for DNA" (draft) pdf (399,703 Bytes) ocr (202 Bytes)
Description:
A draft of Watson's and Crick's seminal article on the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid, which appeared in the April 25, 1953, issue of Nature. Note Watson's and Crick's oblique mention of "much unpublished experimental material" on DNA structure related to the authors by Maurice Wilkins through by "personal communication," namely, the crystallographic X-ray images of DNA fibers produced by Rosalind Franklin at King's College, London, which Watson and Crick drew upon without her knowledge. In this draft they credited Wilkins by name but group Franklin with others of his unnamed "co-workers," although in the published version her name appeared alongside that of Wilkins.
Number of Image Pages:
5 (399,703 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
1953
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Watson, James D.
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of the Nature Publishing Group.
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
DNA
Exhibit Category:
The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953
Relation:
Metadata Record "A Structure for DNA" (draft) [1953]
Metadata Record Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (April 25, 1953)
Box Number: 69
Folder Number: PP/CRI/H/1/11/2
Unique Identifier:
SCBBYQ
Document Type:
Articles
Drafts (documents)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Notes and Drafts
SubSeries: Notes and Drafts 1950-1955
SubSubSeries: "A Structure for DNA"
Folder: "A Structure for DNA"
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2008-01-23
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