Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Letter from Aaron Klug to Francis Crick

Contributor(s):
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Francis Harry Compton Crick Papers
Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
Klug, Aaron
Publication:
Produced: 6 April 1977
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
DNA
Nucleosomes
Crystallography, X-Ray
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Letters (correspondence)
Abstract:
Klug here further detailed X-ray and electron microscope evidence on the three-dimensional configuration of atoms within crystals of DNA, particularly the dense packing of such atoms in nucleosomes, bead-like compounds of DNA and structural proteins called histones. Klug's structural studies of nucleic acid and protein complexes showed that most chromosomal DNA did not appear in the classic helical form described by Crick and Watson, and won him the 1982 Nobel Prize in chemistry.. NOTE: The last line on page one is cut off in the original copy scanned for the National Library of Medicine.
Copyright:
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Extent:
4 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584582X238 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
SCBBQP
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584582X238
Archival Collection:
The Francis Crick Papers (Profiles in Science)