Title:

Ideas on Protein Synthesis

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

October 1956

Description:

This sketch provides an early outline of what Crick called the Central Dogma, the axiom that DNA and RNA specify protein, but that protein can never specify either. The Central Dogma was a succinct theory about the flow of information in living cells. Crick first publicly elaborated on the Central Dogma at a Society for Experimental Biology Symposium on "The Biological Replication of Macromolecules," held at University College London in September 1957.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 74. Folder: PP/CRI/H/2/6

Rights:

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

Genre:

Notes

Subject:

Molecular Biology

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:

SCBBFT

NLM ID:

101584582X65

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X65

Story Section:

Defining the Genetic Coding Problem, 1954-1957