Title:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Creator:

Klug, Aaron

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

27 January 1977

Description:

In his letter Klug raised some methodological concerns about experiments conducted by two researchers, Arne Leth Bak and Jesper Zeuthen, in support of an article on chromosome structure for which Crick was a co-author. Moreover, Klug regretted that "[s]ince you left, one doesn't have the fresh flow of news which may stop one from getting into a rut in one's thinking," affirming Crick's longstanding role as a clearinghouse of information and criticism at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Finally, Klug revealed that in attempting to detail the structure of chromosomal DNA, he was "more bewildered than ever" by the latest electron micrographs (photographs made through an electron microscope) of DNA crystals.

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 Chromosomes

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

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:

SCBBQS

NLM ID:

101584582X241

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X241

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004