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Title:
Interim Note: Studies on the Physical Properties of the Cytoplasm of Cells in Tissue Culture pdf (323,164 Bytes) ocr (1,924 Bytes)
Description:
The technique to which Crick referred here was invented by Arthur Hughes, a technique by which small particles of magnetic ore were inserted into cultured chick fibroblast cells. The cells engulfed the particles, which could then be moved around inside the cells by an applied magnet field, yielding data on the physical properties of the cytoplasm, the material of the cell that surrounds the nucleus. Crick described and analyzed the results obtained from these experiments in two papers, mentioned here as drafts and published in 1950, his first published papers.
More importantly for his scientific career in the long term, Crick in this note declared his intention to transfer to the Medical Research Council's unit at the Cavendish Laboratory in order to study the structure of proteins with Max Perutz.
Number of Image Pages:
3 (323,164 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
March 1949
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
URL: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
Cytoplasm
Exhibit Category:
Biographical Information
Relation:
Metadata Record The Physical Properties of Cytoplasm: A Study by Means of the Magnetic Particle Method, Part I. Experimental (1950)
Metadata Record The Physical Properties of Cytoplasm: A Study by Means of the Magnetic Particle Method, Part II. Theoretical Treatment (1950)
Box Number: 2
Folder Number: PP/CRI/A/2/1
Unique Identifier:
SCBBBB
Document Type:
Reports
Laboratory notes
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Personal Material
SubSeries: Correspondence
Folder: MRC: Studentship and Employment
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2005-09-19
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