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The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953: Documents

[Detail from group portrait of physics research students at the Cavendish Laboratory]. June 1952.
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Metadata Record Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 4 Images. [ca. 1948-1953]. pdf (863,619 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. [ca. 1948-1953 (Thursday)]. pdf (357,730 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. [ca. 1948-1953 (Saturday)]. pdf (138,813 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Letter from Maurice Wilkins to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. [ca. 1948-1953 (Friday)]. pdf (346,348 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "Biochemical Work on Lysozyme." Notes. 8 Images. [ca. 1950-1951]. pdf (1,705,395 Bytes)
Metadata Record Vand, Vladimir. Letter from Vladimir Vand to William Cochran and Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 13 December 1951. pdf (86,555 Bytes) ocr (1,545 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Notebook entry on] "DNA". Excerpt. Laboratory Notebook. 1 Image. 14 December 1951. pdf (212,832 Bytes)
Metadata Record Franklin, Rosalind, and Raymond Gosling. [Satirical note announcing the death of the DNA helix]. Notes. Obituary. 1 Image. 18 July 1952. pdf (67,432 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis and Odile Crick. Letter (correspondence). 5 Images. [11 August 1952]. pdf (547,842 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "Is [alpha]-Keratin a Coiled Coil?" Nature 170, 4334 (22 November 1952): 882-883. Article. 2 Images. pdf (194,596 Bytes) ocr (5,457 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to David Harker. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 21 January 1953. pdf (264,049 Bytes) ocr (4,238 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D., and Francis Crick. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." Nature 171, 4356 (25 April 1953): 737-738. Article. 2 Images. pdf (198,420 Bytes) ocr (6,810 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D., and Francis Crick. "Genetical Implications of the Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid." Nature 171, 4361 (30 May 1953): 964-967. Article. 4 Images. pdf (429,743 Bytes) ocr (11,747 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Rosalind Franklin (and notes on two papers by Franklin and Raymond Gosling). Letter (correspondence). Notes. 6 Images. 5 June 1953. pdf (410,707 Bytes) ocr (7,169 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Harold Himsworth, Medical Research Council of Great Britain. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 15 June 1953. pdf (224,614 Bytes) ocr (1,412 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 9 October 1953. pdf (347,991 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 12 November 1953. pdf (487,647 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Donohue, Jerry. Letter from Jerry Donohue to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 23 November 1953. pdf (430,564 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 16 December 1953. pdf (450,721 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Fragment of notes on a double helix model for DNA]. Draft. Excerpt. Notes. 10 Images. [ca. 1953]. pdf (821,055 Bytes) ocr (11,615 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Notes on a proposed structure for DNA]. Notes. 2 Images. [ca. 1953]. pdf (406,300 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Notes on] "Genetics". Notes. 1 Image. [ca. 1953]. pdf (171,325 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. [Notes on the genetical implications of the structure of DNA]. Notes. 8 Images. [ca. 1953]. pdf (1,513,946 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Notes on the possible configuration of bases in the DNA structure]. Notes. 1 Image. [ca. 1953]. pdf (174,416 Bytes) ocr (473 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. [Notes on the structure of DNA]. Diagram. Notes. 1 Image. [ca. 1953]. pdf (137,020 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D., and Francis Crick. "A Structure for DNA" (draft). Article. Draft. 6 Images. [1953]. pdf (549,159 Bytes) ocr (7,198 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis, and James D. Watson. "A Structure for DNA" (draft). Article. Draft. 5 Images. [1953]. pdf (399,703 Bytes) ocr (202 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D., and Francis Crick. "The Structure of DNA." Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 18, (1953): 123-131. Article. 9 Images. pdf (1,374,571 Bytes) ocr (37,655 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "Structure and Function of DNA." Discovery 15, (January 1954): 12-17. Article. 6 Images. pdf (747,451 Bytes) ocr (24,582 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis, and James D. Watson. "The Complementary Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 223, Series A (1954): 80-96. Article. 18 Images. pdf (1,916,953 Bytes) ocr (46,166 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "The Complementary Structure of DNA." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 40, (1954): 756-758. Article. 3 Images. pdf (293,713 Bytes) ocr (8,799 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "The Structure of DNA." The Chemical Basis of Heredity. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1956. Pp. 532-539. Article. 8 Images. pdf (699,875 Bytes) ocr (18,652 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "The Discovery of the Structure of DNA." Lecture Notes. 6 Images. [ca. 1959]. pdf (1,053,211 Bytes) ocr (437 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 2 August 1960. pdf (328,238 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Friberg, Sten, and Karolinska Institute. Telegram from Sten Friberg, Karolinska Institute to Francis Crick. Telegram. 2 Images. 18 October 1962. pdf (4,116,457 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 30 October 1962. pdf (80,977 Bytes) ocr (1,394 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Maurice Wilkins. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 30 October 1962. pdf (69,209 Bytes) ocr (1,169 Bytes)
Metadata Record Tamm, Igor Y. Letter from Igor Y. Tamm to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 9 November 1962. pdf (67,820 Bytes) ocr (1,050 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Igor Y. Tamm. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 5 December 1962. pdf (108,746 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Draft. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 10 March 1966. pdf (225,965 Bytes) ocr (3,744 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson (and notes concerning Watson's book, "The Double Helix"). Letter (correspondence). Notes. 16 Images. 31 March 1966. pdf (1,756,796 Bytes) ocr (22,673 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 10 May 1966. pdf (342,358 Bytes) transcript of pdf
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 27 September 1966. pdf (85,142 Bytes) ocr (1,409 Bytes)
Metadata Record Wilkins, Maurice H. F. Letter from Maurice Wilkins to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 6 October 1966. pdf (205,504 Bytes) ocr (1,965 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 10 October 1966. pdf (359,022 Bytes) ocr (4,739 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 19 October 1966. pdf (225,266 Bytes) ocr (4,705 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Thomas J. Wilson, Harvard University Press. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 21 October 1966. pdf (204,163 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 1 November 1966. pdf (141,544 Bytes) ocr (1,870 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 23 November 1966. pdf (77,058 Bytes) ocr (1,165 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Maurice Wilkins. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 28 November 1966. pdf (195,946 Bytes) ocr (3,010 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard University. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 1 December 1966. pdf (101,022 Bytes) ocr (1,583 Bytes)
Metadata Record Pusey, Nathan M., and Harvard University. Letter from Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard University to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 9 December 1966. pdf (70,534 Bytes) ocr (1,493 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard University. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 23 December 1966. pdf (92,197 Bytes) ocr (1,993 Bytes)
Metadata Record Pusey, Nathan M., and Harvard University. Letter from Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard University to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 13 January 1967. pdf (49,883 Bytes) ocr (795 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Maurice Wilkins. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 19 January 1967. pdf (158,638 Bytes) ocr (1,952 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Lawrence Bragg. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 23 February 1967. pdf (123,479 Bytes) ocr (1,825 Bytes)
Metadata Record Edsall, John T. Letter from John T. Edsall to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 14 March 1967. pdf (123,250 Bytes) ocr (6,197 Bytes)
Metadata Record Doty, Paul. Letter from Paul Doty to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 16 March 1967. pdf (163,563 Bytes) ocr (3,254 Bytes)
Metadata Record Watson, James D. Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 24 March 1967. pdf (89,370 Bytes) ocr (1,966 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson. Letter (correspondence). 6 Images. 13 April 1967. pdf (694,716 Bytes) ocr (13,168 Bytes)
Metadata Record Pauling, Linus. Letter from Linus Pauling to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 25 April 1967. pdf (74,960 Bytes) ocr (1,514 Bytes)
Metadata Record Vaughan, Paul. "The Double Helix Revisited--Francis Crick and James Watson Talk to Paul Vaughan about Their Discovery of the Molecular Structure of DNA." The Listener 88, 2281 (14 December 1972): 819-821. Article. Interview. Transcript. 3 Images. pdf (889,701 Bytes) ocr (19,994 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "The Double Helix: A Personal View." Nature 248, 5451 (26 April 1974): 766-769. Article. 4 Images. pdf (657,800 Bytes) ocr (23,937 Bytes)
Metadata Record Swann, Michael. "The Race for the Double Helix--Providence and Personalities." The Listener 92, 2363 (11 July 1974): 41-43. Article. Interview. Transcript. 3 Images. pdf (1,262,684 Bytes) ocr (21,831 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Andrew Poggenpohl, National Geographic Magazine. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 19 August 1974. pdf (87,720 Bytes) ocr (2,116 Bytes)
Metadata Record Friend, Charlotte. Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 11 September 1979. pdf (67,978 Bytes) ocr (1,526 Bytes)
Metadata Record Markham, Margaret. Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 12 September 1979. pdf (123,113 Bytes) ocr (2,672 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to Charlotte Friend. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 18 September 1979. pdf (108,288 Bytes) ocr (927 Bytes)
Metadata Record Klug, Aaron. Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 18 September 1979. pdf (70,407 Bytes) ocr (1,793 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. "How to Live with a Golden Helix." The Sciences 19, (September 1979): 6-9. Article. 4 Images. pdf (601,224 Bytes) ocr (19,101 Bytes)
Metadata Record Crick, Francis. Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. 2 October 1979. pdf (87,356 Bytes)
Metadata Record Klug, Aaron. Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick. Letter (correspondence). 2 Images. 9 October 1979. pdf (113,958 Bytes) ocr (3,902 Bytes)
Metadata Record Friend, Charlotte. Letter from Charlotte Friend to the Editor of The Sciences. The Sciences, (December 1979): 3. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image. pdf (55,809 Bytes) ocr (1,687 Bytes)
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