Tag: Francis Crick

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Crick and Watson’s paper on the structure of DNA in Nature. In the published paper their assessment of the discovery was subtle though crucial: It has not escaped our notice that… Continue reading

The preservation of hard documentary evidence about the past is what we archivists strive towards constantly.  But just for once, allow this particular archivist to indulge in a flight of fancy and imagine how molecular biologist Francis Crick might have… Continue reading

More details have been announced today of the Wellcome Library’s groundbreaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’. Tens of thousands of notes, letters, sketches, lectures, photographs and essays, produced by the key players in the discovery of the structure… Continue reading

  On Friday 16 March (1.10pm-1.55pm), Wellcome Library Fellow Dr Christine Aircardi, will be giving a free Bite-Sized Lunchtime lecture at University College London. Christine will talk about her current research, in a lecture entitled: “The life of Francis Crick: a… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library is very pleased to announce that the third and final batch of Francis Crick’s scientific papers is now fully catalogued and available for research. The entire archive has recently been imaged as part of the library’s Wellcome… Continue reading

From letters sent to the eminent molecular biologist Francis Crick between 1987 and 2003: Dear Francis, wen I am olda, I wood lik to be a brilliant scientistt like you. Did you always want to be a scientist? Is it… Continue reading

February was a month of sustained activity in the archives and manuscripts department, with a lot of cataloguing projects but most of these still ongoing. Some 243 new records went into the database, but of these only a tenth became… Continue reading

If your extremities feel like icicles right now, shudder at the chilly prospect faced back in 2004 by Francis Crick (who co-discovered the structure of DNA, in case you have forgotten). Three months before he died in July 2004, Francis… Continue reading

On 16th December, BBC4 broadcast the most recent episode of their series The Beauty of Diagrams, in which mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explores the stories behind some of the world’s most familiar and influential scientific diagrams. The latest featured diagram… Continue reading

News of a pair of forthcoming free public events, which draw on the expertise and knowledge of two members of Wellcome Library staff. On Tuesday 30th November, Ross MacFarlane, Research Officer, will be speaking at Brent Archives on ‘Henry Wellcome:… Continue reading