Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick
- 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