Letter from Francis Crick to Robert L. Sinsheimer
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to Robert L. Sinsheimer
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Sinsheimer, Robert
- Date:
- 9 October 1961
- Description:
- In this letter Crick refers to genetic experiments undertaken with Leslie Barnett, Sydney Brenner, and Richard Watts-Tobin on acridine mutants, which indicated that the genetic code was a triplet code. Compelling evidence that poly-U (a synthetic form of RNA consisting of bases of a single type, uracil) coded for the amino acid phenylalanine was first presented by the American biochemist Marshall Nirenberg in the summer of 1961.
- Original Repository:
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
- Location:
- Box: 32. Folder: PP/CRI/E/1/10/4/3
- 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:
- Genetic Code
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 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:
- SCBBCQ
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X24
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X24
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966