Title:

Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Francis Crick

Creator:

Kornberg, Arthur, 1918-2007

Recipient:

Crick, Francis, 1916-2004

Date:

3 July 1969

Description:

In this letter Kornberg laid out plans for a visit to Crick's laboratory, and reported further results of studies with DNA polymerase, an enzyme that catalyses the formation of strands of DNA, which Kornberg had been using in experiments on DNA replication since the late 1950s.

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 Arthur Kornberg.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

DNA

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 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:

SCBBGW

NLM ID:

101584582X86

Profiles Collection:

The Francis Crick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X86

Story Section:

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