Spetsai

Correspondence and abstracts relating to the Fourth (NATO) Advanced Study Institute of Molecular Biology, held at Spetsai, Greece, 6-19 July, 1969. There is also a set of speaking notes (holograph).

For background to the summer school in Spetsai, see Crick's long letter to Dr François Gros (19 March, 1969) from which the following paragraph is excerpted:

"You will recall that the meeting planned for 1967 was cancelled because the military junta had recently seized power. It was not possible to organize a meeting for 1968, but during this period I corresponded with [Dr A E] Evangelopoulos (the Greek organizer of the 1966 meeting) who was for several months at MIT. While he was there he had several discussions with Alex Rich and other Americans about the desirability of having further meetings on Spetsai. He concluded that he would prefer those Molecular Biology Summer Schools to continue because of the great stimulus they give to young Greek biochemists, and because they would reduce the isolation of Greek scientists, which they find very painful. Under those circumstances, I could hardly resist his appeal to me to organize a further meeting, although I have no personal reason for doing this as my scientific interests are turning to other areas of Biology and the meetings are held at a time of year which is inconvenient for me. Fortunately, my two colleagues, Brian Clark and Mark Bretscher, agreed to do the bulk of the organization, and the meeting has, in fact, been planned by them in collaboration with Evangelopoulos."