In the early 1970s, Lederberg worked diligently to dispel what he believed was the "myth" that Avery's work on the "transforming principle" was not widely appreciated by scientists when it first appeared in the mid-1940s. In this letter, Lederberg asked Gabriel if he could relate his recollections of his initial reaction to the 1944 article by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty.
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