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The Francis Crick Papers

Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson pdf (694,716 Bytes) ocr (13,168 Bytes)
Description:
In this letter, Crick detailed his objections to the revised draft of Watson's account of their discovery of the double helix. The working title was still Honest Jim, an ironic and self-deprecating title Watson chose to meet criticism of his and Crick's insufficiently acknowledged use of experimental evidence by other researchers, particularly Rosalind Franklin. Crick decried Watson's manuscript as a betrayal of their friendship and a distortion of the scientific methods they used in their discovery.
Item is a photocopy.
Number of Image Pages:
6 (694,716 Bytes)
Date:
1967-04-13 (April 13, 1967)
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Watson, James D.
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):
DNA
Writing
Ethics, Professional
Exhibit Category:
The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Linus Pauling to Francis Crick (April 25, 1967)
Metadata Record Letter from James D. Watson to Francis Crick (March 24, 1967)
Box Number: 75
Folder Number: PP/CRI/I/3/8/4
Unique Identifier:
SCBBKN
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Publication
SubSeries: Other Publications
SubSubSeries: Watson, The Double Helix
Folder: [Correspondence Concerning Publication]
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-10-26
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