Scope and Contents Comprising a testimonial from the General Electric Company Ltd (GEC), 1935; correspondence with Ernest Rutherford about a post at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1936 (2); correspondence about the Warren Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, which John Randall held at Birmingham University, from 1937; correspondence about applications for other academic posts, 1940-2; correspondence and press cuttings about his appointment as Professor of Natural Philosophy at St Andrew's...

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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).