The Francis Crick Papers

Title:

Directed Panspermia

Description:

This lecture was first delivered at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on 5 November 1976.

Directed panspermia was Crick's and Leslie Orgel's name for their theory that life on earth might have sprung from seeds spread deliberately from spaceships sent by a distant civilization.

Item is handwritten.

Number of Image Pages:

6 (15,191,280 Bytes)

Date:

1976-11-05 (November 5, 1976)

Creator:

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 the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

URL: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: Biogenesis

Exhibit Category:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004

Relation:

Directed Panspermia (1973)

Box Number: 49

Folder Number: PP/CRI/E/1/24/12

Unique Identifier:

SCBBYP

Document Type:

Lecture notes

Language:

English

Format:

application/pdf

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Series: Travels and Meetings

SubSeries: Meetings Attended

SubSubSeries: Travels and Meetings 1976

Folder: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2005-09-26

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