Letter from Francis Crick to Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France)
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France)
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Institut Pasteur (Paris, France) and Lwoff, Andre, 1902-
- Date:
- 25 September 1957
- Description:
- In this letter Crick responded to Andre Lwoff's concern that the two chains of the double helix of DNA would appear to code for different proteins because being complementary, the two chains had a different base sequence. Both Crick and Lwoff thought this would be unlikely, but could not explain how such a conclusion might be avoided.
- 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:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Andre Lwoff, Institut Pasteur (France) to Francis Crick, 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:
- SCBBBX
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X12
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X12
- Story Section:
- Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957