Letter from Francis Crick to Harold Himsworth, Medical Research Council of Great Britain

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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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)