Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick
- Title:
- Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick
- Creator:
- Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
- Recipient:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Date:
- 16 June 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. From 1954 on he was first trustee, then vice president of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City (the "Institute" referred to in his letter).. In this letter Weaver expressed doubt that the reductionism at the heart of modern physics was suitable for the study of biology.
- 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 Helen Weaver.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Physics and Molecular Biology
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 3 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Warren Weaver, 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:
- SCBBKF
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X133
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X133
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966