Ending 2nd Nov, 2025 18:00
Books, Manuscripts and Maps
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CRICK, Francis Harry Compton: Manuscript Three volumes of his daily diaries, 1938-39
Starts March 17, 1938, & ends: April 12, 1939. He was doing his Doctorate project on 'measuring the Viscosity of water at high temperature' in the laboratory of Edward Neville da Costa Andrade ('The Prof', as he refers to him throughout), at University college, London. The three volumes (all neatly hand written in ink & pencil) are a record of his daily routine at the Lab. Two of the volumes have the inscription to the front pastedown 'FH Compton Crick, U.C. London, Physics Research Lab, & the starting date of the volume'. Vol.1 145 leaves; Vol.2 148 leaves, & Vol.3 101 leaves, some with writing on both sides. He refers often to his work in the Lab with Walden (Leonard Walden, the vendor’s father, who met Andrade at the Lab, became a friend and worked with him for the rest of Andrade’s life). The war interfered with Crick’s research; he left to work as a scientist for the Admiralty Research Lab, on the design of 'Magnetic & Acoustic Mines'. Later he studied at Cambridge and while working at the Cavendish Laboratory he met Watson, and together they discovered the DNA. He and Watson shared the Nobel Prize together with one other. PLUS: A report to D.S.I.R. (Department of Science & Industrial research), on the research carried out by Crick under the supervision of Andrade, for his Ph.D. Title page plus 26 pages, typed with corrections by hand and full page sketch; Plus: Scientific photos & Newspaper cuttings. [Leonard Walden: Was the lab technician Crick frequently referred to in the 3 volumes of his Ph.D. diaries in 1938 & 1939. [Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS: (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English Molecular Biologist, Biophysicist, and Neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.]. (qty.)
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