Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to James D. Watson

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Watson, James D., 1928-

Date:

[7 January 1965]

Description:

Page two of the letter refers to the neurobiologists David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel, as well as to Crick's son Michael Crick, who after pursuing a doctorate in neurophysiology at Harvard Medical School in the early 1960s, had become a software engineer at a Boston computer consulting firm.. NOTE: The date was mistakenly typed as "7th January 1964." The actual date of this letter is 7 January 1965.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 36. Folder: PP/CRI/E/1/13/4

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. and http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

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:

SCBBCY

NLM ID:

101584582X31

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X31

Story Section:

Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966