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The Francis Crick Papers

Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to Robert L. Sinsheimer pdf (55,983 Bytes) ocr (889 Bytes)
Description:
In this letter Crick refers to genetic experiments undertaken with Leslie Barnett, Sydney Brenner, and Richard Watts-Tobin on acridine mutants, which indicated that the genetic code was a triplet code. Compelling evidence that poly-U (a synthetic form of RNA consisting of bases of a single type, uracil) coded for the amino acid phenylalanine was first presented by the American biochemist Marshall Nirenberg in the summer of 1961.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (55,983 Bytes)
Date:
1961-10-09 (October 9, 1961)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Sinsheimer, Robert L.
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
Box Number: 32
Folder Number: PP/CRI/E/1/10/4/3
Unique Identifier:
SCBBCQ
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Travels and Meetings
SubSeries: Meetings Attended
SubSubSeries: Travels and Meetings 1962
SubSubSubSeries: "US 1962"
Folder: Biophysical Society Meeting, Washington DC
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-12-20
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