Memo from To: C.B. VanNiel
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Nay a.
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recollections of Ed Tatum

I am sure that there are many things you would
have to offer for this enterprise; probably
answers to many questions that I am not even
aware of.

 

I did hope you could confirm ny suspicions that
you would have been the person in Biology here
to have been aware of Ed in '36 or so (from

his work on Propionibacter nutrition) and call
Beadle's attention to him when he was looking
for a biochemist to work on the Drosophila hor-
mone. Is that right? Can you recall when you
first encountered Ed by name and in person? Did
he correspond with you before he came to Stan-
ford?

Less critical (unless the answer is counter-
intuitive) is just why Ed left Stanford in 45.

Again, with fond greetings,

 

PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305