The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Letter from George Gamow to Francis Crick

Description:

Item is handwritten.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (256,073 Bytes)

Date Supplied:

7 December 1954?

Creator:

Gamow, George

Recipient:

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 R. Igor Gamow.

Exhibit Category:

Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957

Box Number: 70

Folder Number: PP/CRI/H/1/20/2

Unique Identifier:

SCBBWN

Document Type:

Letters (correspondence)

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Notes and Drafts

SubSeries: Notes and Drafts 1950-1955

SubSubSeries: Coding

Folder: Gamow's Stuff

Transcript:

Dec. 7th

2121 Mass. Ave. N.W.

Dear Francis,

I include a m.s. which may reduce a 5 times 10 to the 9th power y. decoding time to ovey (sic!) a few hundred hours. There are also some hopes in making some conclusion by applying Poisson distribution test to Brenner's table. As you must have heard, RNATIE is in production. Soon you will get a chain letter (not branching chain) concerning the selection of one of 20 aa (or "amigos") for tie pin.

Best regards to the jolly old good England and to yourself

Yours Geo.

[written in a box alongside, P.S. Did you hear about Cricktick acid, Ycasine, ect??]

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2006-08-21

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