Subject: Re: Ephrussi
Reply-to: (J. Lederberg) lederberg@rocky2.rockefeller.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:54:34 EDT.

I’ve just returned from a trip, to find your msg.

I don’t think of any documentary sources that could help you any further in
reconstructing Ephrussi’s research program. He was certainly

cognizant of my first speculations {**} concerning somatic cell

genetics (v.i. -- I haven’t checked whether these preceded the

Oak Ridge symposium.), and while I had many conversations with

him, I was never clear how he got started with Sorieul.

Henry Harris (Oxford) might have a clearer picture of how Boris
got into that. Ditto Siminovitch (Toronto), and G. Pontecorvo.
cf:

TI The balance of improbabilities: a scientific life.

PP Oxford: Oxford University Press.

DA 1987.

Howard Schneiderman, recently retired VP Monsanto and before
that at Western Reserve, Washington Univ. was also very close to him.

And have you been in touch with Anne Ephrussi? (a postdoc at
Harvard or MIT -- she might remember some stories.)

kk

47 Lederberg J.

Prospects for the genetics of somatic and tumor cells.
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 63: 662-665. (1956)

The meeting was May 1955; George Klein (Stockholm) was a
principal.