Memo from To: Foy WW, [sn

 

JOSHUA LEDERBERG g
NOV 10 1976

in re EL Tatum

Dear Perry

I do hope your health has improved enough
since our last correspondence, that I am not
putting an undue imposition on you.

You were, I think, just ahead of Ed in
getting your Ph.D., so I thought you might be
in an excellent position to say something about
the environment of research in bacterial
biochemistry in the early '30s, and whatever
you might recall that was distinctive about
Ed's outlook and role. I have no special .
questions about that period, except perhaps
about the influence that his father might have
had in the orientation of Ed's interests. Did
he ever discuss the possibility of taking an

M.D. also, as his father (and later his brother
Howard) had done?

Well, anything you can recall that can hel
preserve a realistic image of Ed and his intel-
lectual development would be most helpful.

With best wishes,

 

PRroFessor JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94395