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The Francis Crick Papers

Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to Fritz Lipmann pdf (58,683 Bytes) ocr (755 Bytes)
Description:
In this letter to biochemist and Nobel laureate Fritz Lipmann, Crick sought to establish priority for his and Sydney Brenner's ideas on the genetic code. He claimed to have conceived these ideas before Marshall Nirenberg described the results of his poly-U experiments using a cell-free system (the system Crick referred to in his letter) at the International Congress of Biochemistry, held in Moscow in August 1961. Nirenberg's experiment proved by biochemical methods that triplets of uracil (UUU) coded for the amino acid phenylalanine.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (58,683 Bytes)
Date:
1961-11-16 (November 16, 1961)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Lipmann, Fritz
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):
Genetic Code
Exhibit Category:
Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis Crick (November 27, 1961)
Box Number: 10
Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/1/1/12
Unique Identifier:
SCBBBT
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Correspondence
SubSeries: Alphabetical Correspondence
SubSubSeries: Correspondence 1
Folder: Correspondence L
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-12-20
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