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