New blog! Now with pictures, videos, links and opinions!

This new blog for the project, DNA and Social Responsibility will hopefully provide an interactive guide to the papers and life of Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004). The current blog that can be found on the the King's website
(https://www.kcl.ac.uk/blogs/dna/) is functional but sadly cannot support the use of pictures, audio clips and videos. This new blog allows such diverse media which is fantastic due to the sheer number that we currently hold within our archives.

To illustrate this...

Maurice Wilkins photographed soon after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962

 And to prove the first was not a fluke...

The many faces of Maurice Wilkins



Brilliant!

Anyway, this new blog will continue to function in tandem with the official King's DNA and Social Responsibility blog but will provide a different perspective by allowing readers to glimpse at some of the documents that we at King's are uncovering, such as below:

Letter received by Maurice Wilkins from the Dalai Lama in his capacity of the President of Food and Disarmament International to gain support of Nobel Laureates to support a manifesto against starvation in the developing world.

The Dalai Lama, was but one, of the interesting characters that Maurice Wilkins came into contact with during his eventful life. In the forthcoming weeks I hope to provide more insightful glimmers of our work and to popularise his often forgotten role in what was arguably the greatest biological discovery of the twentieth century.