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Max Perutz's letter was drafted in response to the account of the discovery given in James Watson's book "The Double Helix". The correspondence concentrates particularly on the disputed circumstances in which a report produced by John Randall's MRC Biophysics Research Unit at King's College, London, was shown by Max Perutz to Francis Crick and James Watson in Cambridge.
Including correspondence with Max Perutz (10); Sir Lawrence Bragg (5); and Maurice Wilkins (4).

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 Comprising: "Some Problems of the Cell Nucleus", a lecture given at Yale University, 5 September 1950, including a letter from Joseph Chayen enclosing 3 black-and-white photographs of Tradescantia bracteata staminal hair nuclei, 30 August 1950, and 6 black-and-white photographs used as slides and described in accompanying notes; and "An Experiment in Biophysics", a lecture given at the Royal Society, 1 February 1951, with 2 black-and-white photographs and various diagrams and photographs...