Gordon Research Conference

Date:
1965-1966
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PP/CRI/E/1/13/10
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Description

The file comprises a range of material relating to the Gordon Research Conference 'Nucleic Acids', held The New Hampton School, New Hampton, 20-25 June 1965, chaired by H Gobind Khorana and Paul Berg.

The programme lists Crick as a speaker for the sessions on 'Coding' (24 June) and 'Protein Synthesis' (25 June).

The file includes:

various notes (holograph) on the genetic code, including tables dated 13 and 15 April, 1965;

a- and ß- Chain Sequences (R L Hill) and notes on abnormal haemoglobins;

correspondence from G Wittmann, Marshall Nirenberg, Akira Tsugita, Charles Yanofsky, and Hans Georg Zachau;

and a typescript draft of Crick (1966), "Codon-anticodon pairing: the wobble hypothesis".

Publication/Creation

1965-1966

Physical description

1 file

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics. A letter to Crick from Akira Tsugita, 12 July 1965, has been photographed and copies are held in Wellcome Images as L0047984-7.

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