Letter from Francis Crick to Harold Himsworth, Medical Research Council of Great Britain
- Contributor(s):
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers Himsworth, Harold Crick, Francis, 1916-2004 Medical Research Council (Great Britain)
- Publication:
- Produced: 15 June 1953
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Molecular Biology
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Letters (correspondence)
- Abstract:
- In this letter to the Chairman of the Medical Research Council Crick related his plans for a postdoctoral year (1953-54) at David Harker's protein structure laboratory at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and applied for a permanent position as a scientific staff member of the MRC unit at the Cavendish Laboratory, a position that "would allow me to devote all my effort to research, at a time when my thoughts and energies are flowing strongly in this channel." Crick explained that he worked on molecular structure "because I believe it to be the key to the really fundamental biological problems."
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- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101584582X127 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- SCBBJX
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X127
- Archival Collection:
- The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)