Title:

Letter from Thomas H. Jukes to Francis Crick

Creator:

Jukes, Thomas H. (Thomas Hughes), 1906-1999

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

12 January 1982

Description:

In his letter Jukes recorded his favorable reception of Crick's book, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (1981), in which Crick speculated that life on earth might have evolved from microscopic organisms seeded here deliberately by an alien civilization. More than offering a far-fetched hypothesis, Crick's book was a meditation on scientific method and on the convergence of scientific disciplines needed to explain such difficult problems as the origins of life on earth.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 22. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/16

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Marguerite A.V. Jukes.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Organelle Biogenesis

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 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:

SCBBNP

NLM ID:

101584582X198

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X198

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004