Title:

Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana

Creator:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Recipient:

Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011

Date:

6 March 1969

Description:

Crick consulted Khorana, the first to synthesize a gene from its component nucleotides, as a fellow expert on the genetic code and its action in protein synthesis.

Original Repository:

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

Location:

Box: 9. Folder: PP/CRI/D/1/1/11

Rights:

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

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Genetic Code

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Relation:

Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana, 1969
Letter from H. Gobind Khorana to Francis Crick, 1969

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:

SCBBGM

NLM ID:

101584582X78

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X78

Story Section:

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