Letter from Francis Crick to Alexander Rich
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Alexander Rich
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Rich, Alexander
- Date:
- 22 October 1974
- Description:
- In his letter Crick further clarified his charges that Rich had used details of Aaron Klug's model of transfer RNA without proper acknowledgement. Rich and Klug were in a competitive race first to make crystals of phenylalanine transfer RNA of yeast for X-ray diffraction studies, then to deduce its structure from the X-ray data. In this debate between two of his long-time collaborators, Crick saw himself as arbiter and as guardian of the professional ethics of scientists.
- 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:
- RNA, Transfer and Ethics, Professional
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Alexander Rich to Francis Crick, 1974
- 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:
- SCBBPQ
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X218
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X218
- Story Section:
- Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976