Title:

Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis and Odile Crick

Creator:

Lipmann, Fritz (Fritz Albert), 1899-1986

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 and Crick, Odile

Date:

16 June 1976

Description:

Lipmann here raised the question of whether evolutionary changes were chance events or were produced by biochemical mechanisms. Lipmann cited as an example for the latter the symbiosis of microorganisms, as in the phagocytosis (the engulfing) of bacteria by primitive cells.

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 Stephen Lipmann.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Biological Evolution

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis and Odile Crick to Fritz Lipmann, 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:

SCBBMT

NLM ID:

101584582X181

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X181

Story Section:

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