Thursday 31 May 2012

Wellcome Trust digitizing the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics

The Wellcome Trust will be bringing the papers of the pioneers of modern genetics together in one place for the first time as part of their digitization 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 of DNA and the development of genetics will be freely available online.They include the papers of Francis Crick, James D Watson, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins.

The Wellcome Trust will be collaborating with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The Churchill Archives Centre, the University of Glasgow, King's College London and UCL (University College London) to make their archival collections available.

Find out more about exactly which material will be made available by reading the the press release here: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2012/WTVM055104.htm