Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011

Date:

28 June 1974

Description:

In his response Crick noted the surprisingly frequent appearance of palindromes in Khorana's tyrosine tRNA sequence data, that is, of DNA sequences that read the same in both directions.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/6

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:

Genetic Code

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from H. Gobind Khorana 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:

SCBBMQ

NLM ID:

101584582X178

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X178

Story Section:

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