Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis Crick
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Lipmann, Fritz (Fritz Albert), 1899-1986
- Publication:
- Produced: 27 November 1961
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Genetic Code
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- In this letter the biochemist Fritz Lipmann reported on work on the coding problem undertaken by fellow Nobel Laureate Severo Ochoa at New York University School of Medicine. Crick's contention that the code was degenerate, i.e. that more than one triplet could code for an amino acid, was borne out during the next few years, and Lipmann's doubts in this regard, expressed in his letter, were disproved. The letter also demonstrated that by 1961, most researchers had abandoned the idea that the code might be overlapping, that is, that a triplet might share a base with both the preceding and succeeding triplet.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X10 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBBV
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X10
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)