Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick

Letter from Warren Weaver to Francis Crick

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978
Publication:
Produced: 16 June 1964
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Physics
Molecular Biology
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Weaver, an American mathematician and one of the founders of communication theory, directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Natural Science Division from 1932 to 1955, and in this capacity exercised considerable influence over the direction of basic research in the United States and abroad during the 1930s and 1940s. From 1954 on he was first trustee, then vice president of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City (the "Institute" referred to in his letter).. In this letter Weaver expressed doubt that the reductionism at the heart of modern physics was suitable for the study of biology.
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Extent:
3 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X133 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBKF
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X133
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)