Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue

Letter from Francis Crick to Jerry Donohue

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Donohue, Jerry
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Publication:
Produced: 3 August 1970
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
DNA
Crystallography, X-Ray
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Crick's letter referred to an account of the debate between Donohue and Maurice Wilkins and colleagues about the determination of DNA structure by Fourier synthesis of X-ray diffraction data published by an unnamed correspondent in the May 2, 1970 issue of Nature (vol.226, p. 404), and to Donohue's response (Nature, vol. 227, July 18, 1970, p.317).. Crick did not in fact publish the "considered article" he announced in his letter. However, in a retrospective, "The Double Helix: A Personal View," published in the April 26, 1974, issue of Molecular Biology (vol. 248, p.768), Crick summarized that Donohue, "whose advice was crucial to our understanding of base pairing, was a persistent critic of the validity of the later X-ray work, but in recent years he had carried it too far, refusing, for example, to admit as evidence the great accumulation of data showing that the two chains are antiparallel."
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X185 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBMY
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X185
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)