The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Title:

Letter from Francois Jacob to Marshall W. Nirenberg

Description:

This letter congratulates Nirenberg for the two manuscripts on protein synthesis, which he sent to the Institut Pasteur in late 1961. Jacob refers to Nirenberg's work as a "wonderful story."

Number of Image Pages:

1 (36,625 Bytes)

Date:

1961-12-20 (December 20, 1961)

Creator:

Jacob, Francois

Institut Pasteur (France)

Recipient:

Nirenberg, Marshall W.

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Francois Jacob.

Exhibit Categories:

Synthetic RNA and the Poly-U Experiments, 1959-1962

Public Reactions to the Genetic Code, 1961-1968

Box Number: 4

Folder Number: 30

Unique Identifier:

JJBBHM

Accession Number:

2001-009

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Series II: Correspondence, 1953-1993

Folder: General, 1953-1977

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2007-02-22

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