Title:

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Creator:

Klug, Aaron

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

12 May 1976

Description:

Klug here referred to his X-ray diffraction studies of crystals of chromatin, the name given to the chromosomal material--an assembly of DNA and a group of simple proteins called histones--when extracted from the nucleus of cells in higher organisms (eukaryotic cells).

Original Repository:

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers

Location:

Box: 23. Folder: PP/CRI/D/2/19

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Aaron Klug.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA, Chromatin, and Crystallography, X-Ray

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 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:

SCBBQZ

NLM ID:

101584582X246

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X246

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004