Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to John A. B. Gray, Medical Research Council of Great Britain

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Medical Research Council (Great Britain) and Gray, John A. B.

Date:

5 November 1968

Description:

In his letter to the secretary of the Medical Research Council, Crick discussed the optimal size of a biological research laboratory, the relationship between Crick's home institution, the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and the proposed European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), and the relationship between basic and industrial research, including the issue of private consulting by publicly-funded scientists.

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)

Subject:

Molecular Biology

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 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:

SCBBLZ

NLM ID:

101584582X165

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X165

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976