Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Alexander Rich

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Rich, Alexander

Date:

22 October 1974

Description:

In his letter Crick further clarified his charges that Rich had used details of Aaron Klug's model of transfer RNA without proper acknowledgement. Rich and Klug were in a competitive race first to make crystals of phenylalanine transfer RNA of yeast for X-ray diffraction studies, then to deduce its structure from the X-ray data. In this debate between two of his long-time collaborators, Crick saw himself as arbiter and as guardian of the professional ethics of scientists.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/18

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:

RNA, Transfer and Ethics, Professional

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Alexander Rich to Francis Crick, 1974

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:

SCBBPQ

NLM ID:

101584582X218

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X218

Story Section:

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