Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Donohue, Jerry
- Date:
- 3 August 1970
- Description:
- Crick's letter referred to an account of the debate between Donohue and Maurice Wilkins and colleagues about the determination of DNA structure by Fourier synthesis of X-ray diffraction data published by an unnamed correspondent in the May 2, 1970 issue of Nature (vol.226, p. 404), and to Donohue's response (Nature, vol. 227, July 18, 1970, p.317).. Crick did not in fact publish the "considered article" he announced in his letter. However, in a retrospective, "The Double Helix: A Personal View," published in the April 26, 1974, issue of Molecular Biology (vol. 248, p.768), Crick summarized that Donohue, "whose advice was crucial to our understanding of base pairing, was a persistent critic of the validity of the later X-ray work, but in recent years he had carried it too far, refusing, for example, to admit as evidence the great accumulation of data showing that the two chains are antiparallel."
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 12. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/11/1
- 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:
- DNA and Crystallography, X-Ray
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Jerry Donohue to Francis Crick, 1970 Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue, 1970
- 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:
- SCBBMY
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X185
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X185
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976