Letter from Francis Crick to Warren Weaver
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Warren Weaver
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
- Date:
- 6 July 1964
- Description:
- Weaver, an American mathematician and one of the founders of communication theory, directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Natural Science Division from 1932 to 1955, and in this capacity exercised considerable influence over the direction of basic research in the United States and abroad during the 1930s and 1940s. He is considered the first person to propose using electronic computers for the translation of natural languages.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 5. Folder: PP/CRI/C/1/2
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick, 1964
- 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:
- SCBBKD
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X132
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X132
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966