Letter from Francis Crick to Lawrence Bragg
- 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