Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick
- Title:
- Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick
- Creator:
- Klug, Aaron
- Contributor:
- Brightwell, J. A. (Prepared)
- Recipient:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Date:
- 18 September 1979
- Description:
- Aaron Klug, Rosalind Franklin's collaborator at Birkbeck college for the four years before her death in 1958, here clarified a potentially misleading statement Crick had made about Franklin's character and scientific method in his essay, "How to Live with a Golden Helix" (The Sciences, vol. 19, Sept. 1979, pp. 6-9), namely that she was rigid and lacked intuition. Crick and Watson have struggled on several occasions over the course of their careers to fully assess Franklin's personality and her contribution to the discovery of the DNA double helix.
- 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 Aaron Klug.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- Crystallography, X-Ray and DNA
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- How to Live with a Golden Helix, 1979 Letter from Francis Crick to the Editor of The Sciences, 1979 Letter from Charlotte Friend to the Editor of The Sciences, 1979 Letter from Charlotte Friend to Francis Crick, 1979 Letter from Francis Crick to Charlotte Friend, 1979 Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick, 1979 Letter from Margaret Markham to Francis Crick, 1979
- 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:
- SCBBPZ
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X226
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X226
- Story Section:
- Biographical Information