Letter from Francis Crick to Thomas H. Jukes
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Thomas H. Jukes
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Jukes, Thomas H. (Thomas Hughes), 1906-1999
- Date:
- 20 May 1974
- Description:
- Crick here briefly touched on the skepticism his theory of DNA and of the genetic code continued to encounter among some researchers in the early 1960s, as well as on his realization that the genetic code contained ancillary features from previous stages of evolution that might yield clues to how life developed on earth.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/5
- 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 Genetic Code
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Thomas H. Jukes to Francis Crick, 1974
- 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:
- SCBBML
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X174
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X174
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976