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