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Correspondence and papers for an EMBO Meeting on 'The Research Program of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory', held in Heidelberg, Germany, 4-7 November, 1972.

Crick gave the evening lecture on 4 November, entitled "The molecular biology of higher organisms," for which there is a set of speaking notes (seven sheets, holograph).

The file includes a notepad containing Crick's notes on speakers.

The file also includes three background papers for the Meeting:

"A Proposal for EMBO Synchrotron Radiation Bunker at DESY Hamburg" (CEBM/Lab/71/31 E), August 1971;
"Preliminary Proposal for an EMBO Neutron Diffraction Facility at Grenoble" (CEBM/Lab/71/32 E), October 1971;
and "Proposal for a European Laboratory of Molecular Biology" (CEBM/72/3 E), 1972.

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