Title:

Letter from Francis and Odile Crick to Fritz Lipmann

Creator:

Crick, Odile
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Lipmann, Fritz (Fritz Albert), 1899-1986

Date:

25 June 1976

Description:

In his letter Crick considered the role of chance and the possibility of choice in evolution. The evolutionary phenomenon to which Crick was referring was the symbiosis of microorganisms, as in the phagocytosis (the engulfing) of bacteria by prokaryotes, primitive cells without a clearly defined nucleus.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/2/7

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:

Biological Evolution

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis and Odile Crick, 1976

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:

SCBBMS

NLM ID:

101584582X180

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X180

Story Section:

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