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Papers of M H F Wilkins: press cuttings chiefly relating to Wilkins and DNA history

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Newspaper cuttings relating chiefly relating to Wilkins, including: ‘Genetic ‘bomb’ fears grow’, Evening Standard, 24 Nov 1969; ‘From molecules to man’, interview with Wilkins, New Scientist, 9 Aug 1973, with additional photocopies; ‘Third man of peace,' The Times, 1987; Interview with Maurice and Emily Wilkins (daughter) in ‘Relative Values’, The Sunday Times Magazine, [1987]; ‘Fortunate failures I don’t regret’ by Wilkins, The Scientist, 8 Feb 1988; ‘Gas bomb killed 20000’, Morning Star, 25 Mar 1988; ‘Science Fact, Science Fiction’, Science for People, Spring 1989; ‘Great minds on the burning questions’, The Daily Telegraph, 11 Sep 1989; ‘Science, the Gulf war and the WTSW’, Scientific World, Jan 1991; ‘Cracking the code’, Sunday Express, 19 Dec 1993; ‘Forty years of the Double Helix’, The News (King’s College London Newsletter), Jan 1994; letters by Wilkins published in The Times, 8 Jul 1981 and 1 May 1986, and The Guardian, Apr 1987. Also miscellaneous press cuttings, 1989-1991, chiefly from The Guardian and Observer, relating to topics including world peace and broadly cultural issues.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: press cuttings chiefly relating to Wilkins and DNA history

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