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Title:
Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue pdf (562,010 Bytes) ocr (12,399 Bytes)
Description:
In response to Donohue's argument that Fourier analysis of X-ray diffraction data collected by Maurice Wilkins and his colleagues did not rule out models of DNA with other base pairs than those posited by Watson and Crick, Crick here reviewed key concepts of crystallography and helical diffraction theory on which the debate hinged. He also cited the biochemical evidence for his and Watson's model of DNA then available. Crick came to the conclusion that Donohue's "hypothetical models of base-pairs are theoretically not to be trusted without further justification." As he had in his response to Donohue in the pages of Science, Crick in his letter once again challenged him to build models of his proposed structures, which Crick insisted was the only way by which the validity of Donohue's claims could be decided.
Number of Image Pages:
5 (562,010 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
ca. 15 July 1970
Creator:
Crick, Francis
Recipient:
Donohue, Jerry
Source:
Original Repository: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
URL: http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/
Rights:
Reproduced with permission of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
URL: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Subject:
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
DNA
Crystallography, X-Ray
Exhibit Category:
Embryology and the Organization of DNA in Higher Organisms, 1966-1976
Relation:
Metadata Record Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue (August 3, 1970)
Metadata Record Letter from Jerry Donohue to Francis Crick (June 9, 1970)
Box Number: 12
Folder Number: PP/CRI/D/2/11/1
Unique Identifier:
SCBBMZ
Document Type:
Letters (correspondence)
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Series: Correspondence
SubSeries: Individual Correspondents
SubSubSeries: Correspondence: Donohue, Jerry
Folder: Correspondence with Donohue
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-10-22
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