Papers of M H F Wilkins: papers relating to a meeting of Nobel Prize winners and Pope John Paul II

Correspondence, draft speeches, notes and press cuttings relating to a meeting of Nobel Prize winners and Pope John Paul II, Rome, Dec 1980, organised by international humanitarian organisation Nova Spes, including: correspondence between Wilkins and Cardinal Franz Konig, founder of Nova Spes; attendance list, with biographical notes (in Italian); text of John Paul II’s speech, ‘Need for scientists and theologians to develop a constructive dialogue’; text of the resolution of the Nobel Prize winners; typescript drafts of Wilkins’ speech, ‘The problem of nuclear weapons’; text of speech by Hans Krebs, ‘Biological and medical aspects of juvenile delinquency’; press cuttings (in English and Italian). Original file title ‘Nova spes’.

1980-1987

1 file

Wilkins, Maurice; King's College London; Nova Spes; The Sunday Times

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

Available at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

The original material is held at King’s College London, Archives and Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.