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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence and other papers relating to articles on the structure of DNA by Tai Te Wu, and the subsequent refutation by Wilkins and others

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Correspondence, offprints, draft articles and notes relating to articles by Tai Te Wu, ‘Strandedness of DNA at 92% relative humidity’, published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, Vol 30, 1968, and ‘Secondary structures of DNA’, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 63 No 400, 1969, in which Wu posited a four-strand helical structure for DNA, rather than a double helix. File also includes drafts of the article in reply by Wilkins, Herbert Rees Wilson and Leonard Hamilton, ‘Secondary structures of DNA’, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 65 No 3, 1970.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence and other papers relating to articles on the structure of DNA by Tai Te Wu, and the subsequent refutation by Wilkins and others

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