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Letter from Francis Crick to Marshall W. Nirenberg

Title:: Letter from Francis Crick to Marshall W. Nirenberg
Creator:: Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Recipient:: Nirenberg, Marshall W.
Date:: 4 January 1962
Description:: In this letter from the Cavendish laboratory, Crick shares his ideas on the coding process with Nirenberg, offers to give a talk at NIH as requested, and insists that Nirenberg's discoveries revealed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences were the "real" breakthroughs in genetic investigation.
Location:: Box: 4. Folder: 31
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of Francis Crick.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 2 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: JJBBFL
NLM ID:: 101584910X72
Profiles Collection:: The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X72
Story Section:: Synthetic RNA and the Poly-U Experiments, 1959-1962