Title:

Letter from Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France) to Francis Crick

Creator:

Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
Lwoff, Andre, 1902-

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

13 September 1957

Description:

In this letter Lwoff raised the problem that the two chains of the double helix had a different base sequence because they were complementary (and not identical), which meant that if each chain individually coded for proteins, the proteins would be different from one another.

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 Institut Pasteur Service des Archives.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetic Code

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France), 1957

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:

SCBBBW

NLM ID:

101584582X11

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X11

Story Section:

Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957