The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences

Description:

As this short note illustrates, Crick and Watson have struggled on several occasions over the course of their careers to fully assess the contribution to the exposition of the DNA double helix made by Rosalind Franklin, on whose experimental evidence they relied without her knowledge. Even here, Crick cited the words of Aaron Klug, Franklin's former collaborator, rather than use his own words, to clarify a potentially misleading statement Crick had made about Franklin's approach to science in in his retrospective, "How to Live With a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9).

Item is a photocopy.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (87,356 Bytes)

Date:

1979-10-02 (October 2, 1979)

Creator:

Crick, Francis

Recipient:

Sciences

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):: Crystallography, X-Ray; DNA

Exhibit Categories:

The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953

Biographical Information

Relation:

How to Live with a Golden Helix (September 1979)

Letter from Charlotte Friend to the Editor of The Sciences (December 1979)

Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick (September 11, 1979)

Letter from Francis Crick to Charlotte Friend (September 18, 1979)

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick (September 18, 1979)

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick (October 9, 1979)

Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick (September 12, 1979)

Box Number: 23

Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/2/18

Unique Identifier:

SCBBPY

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Correspondence

SubSeries: Individual Correspondents

Folder: Correspondence with Aaron Klug

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-10-22

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