Collection reference

Description

PP/CRI

Francis Crick (1916-2004), molecular biologist: discovered structure of the DNA molecule with Watson and Wilkins. Nobel Prize (1962).

SA/BIO/P/1/1-50

Fred Sanger (b.1918), biochemist: elaborated molecular structure of insulin and developed first DNA sequencing technique. Nobel Prize (1958, 1980).

PP/GRW

Gerard Wyatt (b.1925), biochemist: worked on DNA base analyses in late 40s and early 50s.

PP/AEM

Arthur Ernest Mourant (1904-1994), chemist, haematologist, and geneticist: contributed to study of human blood groups and their distribution.

PP/GRU

Hans Greuneberg (1907-1982), geneticist: worked on development genetics in the mouse.

SA/BGU

Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit records, 1935-1995.

PP/SAR

Robert Race (1907-1984) and Ruth Sanger (1918-2001), serologists: contributed to study of blood groups and genetic mapping of the X chromosome.

PP/PBM

Sir Peter Medawar (1915-1987), biologist: major contribution to understanding immunological tolerance. Nobel Prize (1960)

SA/EUG

Papers of the Eugenics Society 1863-2008: records reflect changing understandings of heredity and genetics

PP/CPB

Carlos Paton Blacker (1895-1975), psychiatrist and secretary of the Eugenics Society