Museum

The mission of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, a non-profit institution, is to provide for the public an educational, scientific and cultural institution devoted to the history of aviation and space flight. This is accomplished through the aircraft and spacecraft collections and the chronology of achievements of the men and women who made significant contributions in aviation and aerospace, with particular emphasis on San Diego's long and rich aerospace history.

The Hunterian collections are extensive and wide-ranging with just over one million objects. The recently published Scottish National Audit of all museum collections ranked the Hunterian as third in Scotland in terms of overall collection size, and in terms of the proportion of our collections which are of international importance. For a summary of individual collections, please choose from the list at the side.

By 1952, much was known about DNA, including its exclusive role as genetic material - the sole substance capable of storing all the information needed to create a living being. What was not yet known was what the elusive DNA molecule looked like, or how it performed this amazing hereditary function. This would change in the course of a single year. The now familiar double helical structure of DNA, and the base-pairing crucial to its hereditary function, were deciphered in 1953, and the individuals most commonly associated with this remarkable feat are James Watson and Francis Crick. Maurice Wilkins played a crucial role as well, and he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Watson and Crick for the discovery. However, another important figure remains, without whom the discovery would not have been possible: the brilliant but short-lived Rosalind Franklin.

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Collections
The Field Museum was founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. These objects form the core of the Museum's collections which have grown through world-wide expeditions, exchange, purchase, and gifts to more than twenty million specimens. The collections form the foundation of the Museum's exhibition, research and education programs, which are further informed by a world-class natural history library of more than 250,000 volumes.

The Resource Centre is an international focus for research on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. It is open by appointment to students, academics and all those with a bona fide research interest. Please contact the Curator to make an appointment to use the Resource Centre.
The Centre has two main functions: to provide access to the collections stored at the Museum and to guide researchers to sources of information outside the Museum.

Harold has given me a relatively simple task of essentially repeating my little book, The Double Helix, and so I prepared some slides from the book, the pictures in it, and I will race through the story and then make a few comments at the end, seeing the discovery after 40 years.

The origin of the work goes back to my days as a student at the University of Chicago where I believe it was the fall of 1945, I read a little book called What Is Life? by the German physicist Erwin Schrodinger, who had received the Nobel Prize for his work in wave mechanics. Schrodinger said the essence of life was essentially heredity, and the key problem was, "What is the gene?" And in particular, "How can you copy a gene?" The gene must carry very specific instructions, and there must be some marvelous trick by which you can exactly copy the structure of a gene. So that inspired me, the following term at the University of Chicago, to go to the lectures by a very famous geneticist named Sewall Wright, who gave a course entitled Physiological Genetics. From that I came away with the feeling there were three problems

On January 1, 1934, The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened to the public. The Museum's hands-on approach to science and technology, combined with the Fels Planetarium, made the Institute a popular spot. As the end of the twentieth century drew near, major changes were beginning at the Institute. In May of 1990, The Mandell Center, Tuttleman Omniverse Theater (now known as the Tuttleman IMAX Theater), and Musser Theater opened, adding dramatically to the size and appeal of The Franklin Institute. The new exhibits, exciting Omnimax films, and interactive presentations continued the Institute's long tradition of making science and technology fun.
Today, more than one hundred and seventy five years after the Institute's founding, The Franklin Institute Science Museum continues to offer new and exciting access to science and technology in ways that would both amaze and delight Mister Benjamin Franklin.

The Florida Museum of Natural History, located at the University of Florida, is Florida's state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage.

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is showcasing the world-renowned treasures of its photography, motion picture, and technology collections via the exhibition The Best of Photo & Film: Right Before Your Eyes. More than 200 unique and historically significant artifacts, presented together for the first time, will create this rare experience on view Sept. 13, 2003 through April 11, 2004.