Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Klug, Aaron
- Date:
- 4 April 1959
- Description:
- In this letter Crick discussed symmetry in virus structure, and expressed hope that Klug, a crystallographer and former collaborator of Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College, would join the Medical Research Council's planned Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. Klug did move there when it opened in 1978, and became Crick's long-time friend and collaborator.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/18
- 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:
- Viruses
- 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:
- SCBBPL
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X214
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X214
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966