Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug [letter 1]

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Klug, Aaron

Date:

27 April 1977

Description:

In his letter Crick drew on his broad knowledge of X-ray crystallography in commenting on Klug's recent hypotheses regarding the three-dimensional configuration of atoms within nucleosomes, compounds of chromosomal DNA and histones (proteins that have a structural or scaffolding function) that appear like beads on a string under the electron microscope.

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:

DNA, Nucleosomes, and Crystallography, X-Ray

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug [letter 2], 1977

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:

SCBBQM

NLM ID:

101584582X236

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X236

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004