Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug [letter 1]
- 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