Memo from To:
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Dan Pease

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-<~ 29 1977
Beadle/ Tatum chronology

Thank you for the suggestions; Berg did not
take the course in question, but had a couple of
other leads.

Your observations about Beadle's absences are
amusing. They may acount for why he did not
"discover' Garrod, by his own account, until 1945
for Tatum lectured about alcaptonuria in the course
in 1941 that Beadle mentions. (I have been lucky
enough to locate Carlton Schwerdt as a student of
the course, and HE STILL HAD HIS LECTURE NOTES!)

Officially, Beadle had been at CalTech from
1931-1936, at Harvard 36-37, then Stanford 37-46.
But he must have been finishing up his book with
Sturtevant 37-39; there are no other publications
that would account for a strong CalTech connection
through that time. I am sure he spent a lot of
time abroad lecturing and fundraising.

Sincerely,

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305