Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Howard M. Temin

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Temin, Howard M.

Date:

17 September 1970

Description:

In this letter Crick further refined his sequence hypothesis (that genetic information is encoded in the sequence of the bases of DNA) and the Central Dogma (that sequence information from nucleic acid used to form a protein can never flow back from the protein to the nucleic acid) as they apply to protein synthesis, embryology, antibodies, and the nervous system.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 11. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/19

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 and DNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

4 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:

SCBBMD

NLM ID:

101584582X168

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X168

Story Section:

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