Scope and Contents This lecture was a retrospective of John Randall's career. The material he assembled to prepare for the lecture includes: correspondence with H. N. Barber about Randall's first interest in biophysics and Barber's use of X-ray photographs to study sperm, 1972 (2); correspondence with R. W. Douglas about X-ray diffraction research, 1972 (4); photocopies of correspondence with and about Rosalind Franklin, 1950-60 (20); correspondence with G. F. J. Garlick about luminescence research, 1972 (2);...

Scope and Contents A lot of the material within the collection relates to Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Consisting of working papers, notebooks, reports and correspondence, this material is of considerable historical interest to those studying the discovery of the structure of DNA. There is also an extensive collection of papers relating to Franklin's work on the Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV), which took place at Birkbeck College in London. There are few papers...