Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Harold Himsworth, Medical Research Council of Great Britain

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Himsworth, Harold and Medical Research Council (Great Britain)

Date:

15 June 1953

Description:

In this letter to the Chairman of the Medical Research Council Crick related his plans for a postdoctoral year (1953-54) at David Harker's protein structure laboratory at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and applied for a permanent position as a scientific staff member of the MRC unit at the Cavendish Laboratory, a position that "would allow me to devote all my effort to research, at a time when my thoughts and energies are flowing strongly in this channel." Crick explained that he worked on molecular structure "because I believe it to be the key to the really fundamental biological problems."

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 2. Folder: PP/CRI/A/2/1

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:

Molecular Biology

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

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:

SCBBJX

NLM ID:

101584582X127

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X127

Story Section:

Biographical Information