Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana
- Title:
- Letter from Francis Crick to H. Gobind Khorana
- Creator:
- Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
- Recipient:
- Khorana, Har Gobind, 1922-2011
- Date:
- 4 November 1966
- Description:
- In this detailed letter, Crick described ongoing work in his laboratory, particularly on nonsense codons, triplet sequences that do not code for amino acids but for the termination of the polypeptide chain 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:
- 3 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:
- SCBBGS
- NLM ID:
- 101584582X83
- Profiles Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X83
- Story Section:
- Deciphering the Genetic Code, 1958-1966