Letter from Maurice H. F. Wilkins to James D. Watson
- Title:
- Letter from Maurice H. F. Wilkins to James D. Watson
- Creator:
- Wilkins, Maurice, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Watson, James D., 1928-
- Date:
- 6 October 1966
- Description:
- Wilkins shared Crick's objections to the publication of Watson's The Double Helix (first called Honest Jim, an ironic and self-deprecating title Watson chose to meet criticism of his and Crick's insufficiently acknowledged use of experimental evidence by other researchers, particularly Rosalind Franklin). Wilkins complained that the book gave a distorted idea of scientists and their methods in part because "[t]he DNA story is not typical of scientific discovery," but was "unusually involved with personal difficulties."
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 75. Folder: PP/CRI/I/3/8/4
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of Maurice H. F. Wilkins.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- DNA and Ethics, Professional
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Legacy ID:
- SCBBLN
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X155
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X155
- Story Section:
- The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953