Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Fogarty International Center and Edsall, John T.

Date:

10 June 1971

Description:

In his letter Crick endorsed Edsall's call for a program of positive eugenics, meaning a social and population policy that would encourage reproduction by people with desirable genetic traits. Both also worried about global population growth, a concern shared with many other scientists at the time. See, for example, Joshua Lederberg's contemporary editorials on this issue in the Washington Post.. NOTE: Crick's signature is cut off on the bottom of the page in the original document.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 22. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/14

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Eugenics

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from John T. Edsall, Fogarty International Center to Francis Crick, 1971
U.S. Population Growth Could Be Made Bearable, 1970
Prophets of Doom Don't Help Population Problem, 1970

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:

SCBBNH

NLM ID:

101584582X192

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X192

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976