December 29 1986
PSB draft. . .Stanley etc.
Dear Seymour,
I have no comments now, except thanks: if more come to mind I'll write again.
In my limited encounters with Stanley, I never thought he had much of an intuition for the biological or genetic. Perhaps that's why he was undaunted by the idea of "crystalizing life."
In like vein, as he later admitted, he was very critical of Avery and doubtless played a critical role in Avery not being recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee.
(nor CA Knight!)
JL
P.S. I just went to my bookshelf to look up WMS's Nobel lecture in David Baltimore's compendium on the Prizes in Mol. Biol. Of course it's not included.