Sulston papers to join Crick's
10 May 2003
Sir John Sulston, Nobel Prize winner in 2002 and founding Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has agreed to donate his archive to the Trust, to be preserved for posterity in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Sir John's gesture is particularly welcome, coming at a time when there has been some discussion in the media about the sale of scientific papers - a threatened auction of archives of Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug and others in New York was recently withdrawn - and his munificence will be much appreciated by all those, now and in the future, who are interested in the Human Genome Project and the other work in which he was a key player.
Further discussions will be held with Sir John with a view to bringing his archive to Euston Road to join the papers of Francis Crick, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Richard Doll and the many other primary sources held in the Wellcome Library that document twentieth-century scientific achievement.
