Julia Nurse
Julia Nurse is Collections Researcher at the Wellcome Library. With a background in art history, she has previously worked as Assistant Curator of the Iconographic Collections, and more recently co-curated the content within the refurbished Reading Room.
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The ‘Spare-part biologist’: Sir Peter Medawar
“He was a big man. That was the first thing that struck you as he strode into the room. A big man – tall and vibrant with life. His sheer presence communicated a sense of power: not political power, not… Continue reading
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Digitising the archive of geneticist Hans Grüneberg
The Wellcome Library is host to numerous scientists who are famed for discovering important aspects of genetics, many of whose papers are being digitised as part of a major on-going project. While Arthur Mourant was the so-called ‘father of… Continue reading
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A Jersey connection: Arthur Mourant and Jacqueline du Pré
The Wellcome Library is not known particularly for its holdings of musical celebrities but the archives often reveal some unexpected items. The fate that struck the talented cellist, Jacqueline du Pré does fall within the Wellcome Library’s remit however, given… Continue reading
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The father of serology – Arthur Mourant
Following on from Francis Crick, preparation work for digitisation continues through the enormous quantity of archival material related to the theme of Modern Genetics and its Foundations here at the Wellcome Library, with the personal papers of Jersey born Arthur… Continue reading
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Papers, papers and yet more papers … preparing the Crick Archive for digitisation
When first faced with preparing around 300 boxes of Francis Crick’s personal papers for digitisation, I have to confess my heart sank. A far cry from the last very visual digitisation project of 3000 AIDS posters, I was daunted, not… Continue reading
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Tour de Francis
The preparation and photography of the Francis Crick archive have provided the digitisation team with a rare and intimate glimpse into the life and thoughts of the Nobel-prize winning scientist. What prevails is a pragmatist, a prolific correspondent, a man… Continue reading
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Francis Crick and the discovery of DNA
The Wellcome Library can be proud today as keeper of the archive of Francis Crick. A recent poll has found that Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA along with his Cambridge University colleague, James Watson, has come… Continue reading
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3,000 AIDS posters catalogued
A project to catalogue and digitise the Library’s collection of 3,000 international AIDS posters has just been completed. Forming one of the largest collections in the world, almost all the posters were acquired from a single collector based in Amsterdam.… Continue reading