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