Letter from Fritz Lipmann to Francis Crick

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.
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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)