Title:

Letter from Thomas H. Jukes to Francis Crick

Creator:

Jukes, Thomas H. (Thomas Hughes), 1906-1999

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

16 May 1974

Description:

In his letter Jukes, a biophysicist and cancer researcher, evoked the excitement but also the occasional skepticism--voiced by the virologist (later the ecologist) Barry Commoner, the biochemist Erwin Chargaff, and the plant virologist Norman Pirie--about efforts to elucidate the genetic code in the early 1960s. In particular, Jukes recounted his realization that the genetic code was likely fraught with ancillary features that gave clues about the course of evolution.

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 Marguerite A.V. Jukes.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetic Code and Biological Evolution

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Thomas H. Jukes, 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:

SCBBMM

NLM ID:

101584582X175

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X175

Story Section:

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