Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Lawrence Bragg

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Bragg, Lawrence

Date:

23 February 1967

Description:

In his campaign to prevent publication of Watson's book, The Double Helix, Crick tried to enlist the support of Sir Lawrence Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and director of the Cavendish Laboratory during the years of Crick's collaboration with Watson. Bragg had agreed to write a foreword for the book, which was to be published by Harvard University Press.. In his letter Crick also discussed the problem of making science comprehensible for lay audiences, one of the purposes of Watson's book.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 75. Folder: PP/CRI/I/3/8/4

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:

DNA and Ethics, Professional

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 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:

SCBBKS

NLM ID:

101584582X141

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X141

Story Section:

The Discovery of the Double Helix, 1951-1953