Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Eric I. Hamilton

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Hamilton, Eric I.

Date:

6 September 1973

Description:

In his letter Crick responded to questions raised by Hamilton regarding Crick's theory of directed panspermia, the idea, first presented in Icarus (a journal devoted to astronomy and solar system studies, edited at the time by Carl Sagan), that life on earth was deliberately seeded by an extraterrestrial civilization. Crick discussed the conditions under which organisms containing DNA might be preserved during space travel and entry into earth's atmosphere.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/3

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:

Organelle Biogenesis

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Eric I. Hamilton to Francis Crick, 1973

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:

SCBBMN

NLM ID:

101584582X176

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X176

Story Section:

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