Letter from Francis and Odile Crick to Fritz Lipmann
- 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