Title:

Chromatin

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

23 September 1976

Description:

Crick's notes for a seminar presentation on September 23, 1976 at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies on the structure of chromatin. A filamentary assembly of DNA and a protein structure base, primarily histone, chromatin is the form in which genes appear on chromosomes. Crick had been interested in chromatin since he conducted studies of its structure with Alexander Rich in the mid-1950s.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 49. Folder: PP/CRI/E/1/24/9

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:

Chromatin

Format:

Text

Extent:

5 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:

SCBBFF

NLM ID:

101584582X55

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X55

Story Section:

Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976