Title:

Directed Panspermia

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

5 November 1976

Description:

This lecture was first delivered at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on 5 November 1976.. Directed panspermia was Crick's and Leslie Orgel's name for their theory that life on earth might have sprung from seeds spread deliberately from spaceships sent by a distant civilization.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 49. Folder: PP/CRI/E/1/24/12

Rights:

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

Genre:

Lecture notes

Subject:

Organelle Biogenesis

Format:

Text

Extent:

6 pages

Relation:

Directed Panspermia, 1973

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:

SCBBYP

NLM ID:

101584582X375

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X375

Story Section:

From Molecular Biology to Neurobiology, 1976-2004