Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Fritz Lipmann

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Lipmann, Fritz (Fritz Albert), 1899-1986

Date:

16 November 1961

Description:

In this letter to biochemist and Nobel laureate Fritz Lipmann, Crick sought to establish priority for his and Sydney Brenner's ideas on the genetic code. He claimed to have conceived these ideas before Marshall Nirenberg described the results of his poly-U experiments using a cell-free system (the system Crick referred to in his letter) at the International Congress of Biochemistry, held in Moscow in August 1961. Nirenberg's experiment proved by biochemical methods that triplets of uracil (UUU) coded for the amino acid phenylalanine.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 10. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/12

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:

Genetic Code

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis Crick, 1961

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:

SCBBBT

NLM ID:

101584582X9

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X9

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966