Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Sydney Brenner

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Brenner, Sydney

Date:

26 September 1977

Description:

In his letter to Brenner, his collaborator at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology for twenty years, Crick alluded to recent progress in genetics and genetic engineering made possible by techniques for rapid DNA sequencing, which Frederick Sanger, Walter Gilbert, and others were perfecting in the mid-1970s.

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 21. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/6

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 Genetic Engineering

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

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:

SCBBNG

NLM ID:

101584582X191

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X191

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004