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William T. Astbury
Oswald T. Avery
Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Erwin Chargaff
Martha Chase
Robert B. Corey
Francis H. C. Crick
Max Delbrück
Jerry Donohue
Rosalind Franklin
R. D. B. (Bruce) Fraser
Alfred D. Hershey
Linus Pauling
Peter J. Pauling
Max F. Perutz
J. T. (John Turton) Randall
Verner Schomaker
Alexander R. Todd
James D. Watson
Maurice H. F. Wilkins

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Portrait of Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Portrait of Sir William Lawrence Bragg, approx. 1960.
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg

1890-1971

Correspondence and Papers
Location: Royal Institution of Great Britain
Address: 21 Albemarle Street, London W1X 4BS, England
Phone: 020-7670-2924  Fax: 020-7629-3569
Email: ri@ri.ac.uk  Web: http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/browse1?inst_id=17

Papers, 1914-1918
Location: Royal Artillery Historical Research Centre, Firepower - The Royal Artillery Museum
Address: Clavell Library, Old Laboratory Office, Royal Arsenal (West), London SE18 6ST, England
Phone: 020 8316 7393  Fax: 020 8855 7100
Email: info@firepower.org.uk  Web: http://firepower.org.uk

Papers relating to Society for Protection of Science and Learning, 1933-1947
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158  Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk  Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/

Miscellaneous Correspondence
Location: Medical Research Council
Address: 20 Park Crescent, London W1N 4AL, England
Phone: 020 7636 5422  

Correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard, 1938-1949
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#BULLARD
Phone: 01223 336087  Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk  Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives

Correspondence with Sir James Chadwick, 1942-1946
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#CHADWICK
Phone: 01223 336087  Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk  Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives

Correspondence with Lord Cherwell, 1919-1954
Location: Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
Address: Oxford OX1 1NF, England
Phone: 01865 278550  Fax: 01865 278621
Email: library-archives@nuf.ox.ac.uk  Web: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/library/archives-information.asp

Correspondence with Ulick Richardson Evans, 1968
Location: Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000  Fax: 01223 333160
Email: mss@ula.cam.ac.uk  Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/

Correspondence with A. V. Hill, 1919-1952
Location: Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
Address: Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS, England
Finding Aid: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/full.php#HILL
Phone: 01223 336087  Fax: 01223 336135
Email: archives@chu.cam.ac.uk  Web: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives

Correspondence with Dorothy Hodgkin, 1942-1976
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158  Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk  Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/

Correspondence with Sir Julian Huxley, 1951-1965
Location: Rice University: Woodson Research Center
Address: Fondren Library, 6100 South Main Street, Houston, TX 77001, United States
Size: 19 items
Phone: 713 527-8101 ext 2586  Web: http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Fondren/Woodson/mss.html

Correspondence with Sir David Phillips, 1960-1971
Location: Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts
Address: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, England
Phone: 01865 277158  Fax: 01865 277187
Email: western.manuscripts@bodley.ox.ac.uk  Web: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/

Correspondence with Francis John Worsley Roughton, 1941, no date
Location: Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000  Fax: 01223 333160
Email: mss@ula.cam.ac.uk  Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/

Correspondence with Edmund Stoner, 1932-1964
Location: Leeds University, Brotherton Library, Special Collections Division
Address: Leeds LS2 9JT, England
Phone: 0113 233 5518  Fax: 0113 233 5561
Email: special-collections@library.leeds.ac.uk  Web: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll

Correspondence with Sir Henry Tizard, 1939-1942
Location: Imperial War Museum Department of Documents
Address: Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, England
Phone: 020 7416 5221  Fax: 020 7416 5374
Email: docs@iwm.org.uk  Web: http://www.iwm.org.uk

Correspondence relating to Cavendish Laboratory
Location: Cambridge University Archives, Cambridge University Library
Address: West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, England
Phone: 01223 333000  Web: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/

 

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Published Papers and Official Documents

Manuscript Notes and Typescripts

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"We felt we could hardly omit any mention of your structure nor did we feel it reasonable to suppress our doubts about it."

James Watson Francis Crick. Letter to Linus Pauling. March 21, 1953.

"So much good work has come from the Medical Research Council unit in Cambridge under Perutz and Kendrew that I think it deserves the recognition of a Nobel Prize. I have drafted a form of recommendation and I am enclosing the draft for your comments. I need hardly say how much strength would be lent to it if you felt able to give your support. The two main things are the body of work by Perutz and Kendrew which may now be fairly claimed to have succeeded in getting out the structure of two protein molecules, and incidentally shows how large a part of your d helix plays in it; and in the second place there is the work on nucleic acid by Watson and Crick. Each of these, it seems to me, is of Nobel Prize standard. One must also take into consideration a number of other important contributions from the laboratory, such as the work on virus, on sickle-cell anaemia, the beginning of Huxley's work on muscle, and the work on collagen; it is an impressive record. As an alternative I thought it might be well to suggest that the work of the unit as a whole should be recognized by dividing a prize between its four leaders, Perutz, Kendrew, Watson and Crick. Here I should be especially glad to have your views."

W.L. Bragg. Letter from Sir Lawrence Bragg to Linus Pauling. December 9, 1959.

"I thank your for your letter and the two new paragraphs of your preface to Watson's book. I must say that I was shocked to read [The Double Helix], perhaps one of the earlier drafts, after I had read your preface. I was indignant about the insinuation about my wife and the statements about other people, but also indignant about Watson's treatment of you. I do not think that you should give the book the support and validation that would be implied by your having written a preface, even despite your disclaimer."

Linus Pauling. Letter from Linus Pauling to Sir Lawrence Bragg (The Royal Institution). May 17, 1967.

"And, as I recount in The Double Helix, I thought Bragg was just a stuffy old man when I met him. But he was a fine man. He had a really keen interest in science, and he was certainly Francis's only competition at the time, in the sense that he was a theoretician. And he had a difficult time, because most people thought that it was his father who had been the clever one, whereas it was the younger Bragg who'd made the running."

James Watson. Nature, 302: 652. April 1983.

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