Letter from Francis Crick to Lord Charles Percy Snow
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Lord Charles Percy Snow
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Snow, Charles Percy, Lord
- Date:
- 17 April 1969
- Description:
- The lecture to which Crick referred in this letter was in part a response to the work of William Shockley and, particularly, of Arthur Jensen on what they considered the biological basis for differences in educational and economic achievement among different racial groups. Crick's usage of racial designations followed conventions still prevailing in the 1960s.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 11. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/18
- 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:
- Genetics and Continental Population Groups
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Lord Charles Percy Snow to Francis Crick, 1969
- 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:
- SCBBCG
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X19
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X19
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976