- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- J. M. Gulland
- Provenance
- Presented by Dr. Paul W. Kent, Nuffield Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oxford. Originally from D. O. Jordan who worked with Professor Gulland and was a contemporary of Dr. Kent at Princeton.
- Primary inscriptions
- Label on bottle "Desoxyribore [for Deoxyribo] nucleic acid, from Calf's Thymus. &vr; ref. no. T 5/1"
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 55mm Height: 82mm
- Inventory No
- 37391
- Accession Number
- 1985-7
Description
Glass jar containing specimen of fibrous DNA prepared by Professor J. Gulland (d. 1947), in glass phial. and a ziploc bag containing yellow crystals. The phial containing the DNA sample is labelled: 'Deoxyribose nucleic acid from Calf's thymus ref no JS/10 ' (?).
Gulland was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, where he worked with D. O. Jordan carrying out physico-chemical studies to establish the linear structure of this molecule. The results were published in the J. Chem. Soc. c.1946/47.
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