Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Nikolai V. Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Office of the Chairman and Podgorny, Nikolai V.

Date:

2 December 1974

Description:

In his letter Crick interceded with the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., Nikolai Viktorovitch Podgorny, on behalf of Alexandre Goldfarb, a molecular biologist who was prevented from immigrating to Israel because Soviet officials had deemed his research important to national security.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 11. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/2

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 Alexander Goldfarb to Francis Crick, 1975

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:

SCBBLY

NLM ID:

101584582X164

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X164

Story Section:

Biographical Information