Additional papers of William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961. 1953-1961.

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Additional papers of William Thomas Astbury, 1898-1961. 1953-1961.

Mainly notes and texts for occasional lectures and papers: (1) Rough notes for various lectures, 1953-61 (ff. 1-32); (2) 'Textile fibres and molecular biology', Brussels, 1955 (ff. 33-48); (3) 'Some master plans of molecular biology', BBC Third Programme, 1957 (ff. 49-58); (4) 'The Structure of bacterial flagella', by W.T. Astbury, E. Beighton and Claes Weibull, [not before 1953] (ff. 59-82); (5) Two papers on flagella by Claes Weibull, [ca. 1950] (ff. 83-98).

98 ff. (typescript, some carbon copies), in 1 envelope.

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Astbury, William Thomas, 1898-1961

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Epithet: physicist and molecular biologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x0002b6 William Thomas Astbury was born at Longton, Stoke-on-Trent and educated at Longton High School and Jesus College, Cambridge, 1917, 1919-1921. He became a Demonstrator in Physics at University College, London, and worked there as assistant to Sir William Bragg, 1921-1923, and at the Royal Institution, London, 1923-1928. In...

Weibull, Claes

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