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To: Dr. Joshua Lederberg
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I think the paper was by Schoenheimer & Rittenberg
(or Rittenberg & Schoenheimer) but Rittenberg did all the
isotope work, having just come from H. Urey's lab where he was
a student. (Urey told him that there was very little future in
isotopes as a physical chemist, but maybe some application could
be found in biology?)

I don't know how to bring in Benesch, since I never
formally worked with him. JI hung around his lab a lot, and
since he had little intellectual arrogance but was very self-
centered, we tended to talk about his experiments rather than mine.
Thats how I came to ask him why Oy uptake was always done in phos-
phate rather than Tris, and that's how I came to ask him how much
Pi was in the red cell anyway, which made him look it up, hence DPG.
He always gave me credit for the suggestion (generous), but I would
hate to arrogate any, especially now that he is dead, and Ruth is
very sensitive. If you have any suggestion as to how, without
being offensive, or grabby, please make it.

Entity is fine - you're right, organism raises questions
I don't want to raise.

   
  

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