Title:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Creator:

Klug, Aaron

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

11 March 1977

Description:

Klug here reported on recent conferences devoted to DNA sequencing and structure, and described the critical response to evidence that chromosomal DNA formed a supersolenoid--a coiled cylindrical structure made of smaller such coiled structures--presented by Crick's two co-authors of a recent paper on chromosome structure, Arne Leth Bak and Jesper Zeuthen. Klug concluded that "if your name hadn't been attached to it [the idea of a supersolenoid], it would probably have been disbelieved."

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:

DNA and Nucleosomes

Format:

Text

Extent:

4 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug, 1977
Letter from Francis Crick to Aaron Klug, 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:

SCBBQR

NLM ID:

101584582X240

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X240

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004