Title:

Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick

Creator:

Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

16 June 1964

Description:

Weaver, an American mathematician and one of the founders of communication theory, directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Natural Science Division from 1932 to 1955, and in this capacity exercised considerable influence over the direction of basic research in the United States and abroad during the 1930s and 1940s. From 1954 on he was first trustee, then vice president of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City (the "Institute" referred to in his letter).. In this letter Weaver expressed doubt that the reductionism at the heart of modern physics was suitable for the study of biology.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 5. Folder: PP/CRI/C/1/2

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Helen Weaver.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Physics and Molecular Biology

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Warren Weaver, 1964

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers. 11646. URL. http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/

Legacy ID:

SCBBKF

NLM ID:

101584582X133

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X133

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966