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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".

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