Memo from To: Bill Gibson
JOSHUA LEDERBERG

SEP 12 1977
Arne or EX Tatun,

In fact, I am in the last stages of a
memoir on Ed Tatum, for the NAS series. If
saw Ed only three or four times, after he
left Stanford for Rockefeller in 1957, so
my account is rather thin on his activities
thereafter. I know that he did extraordinary
service on the National Science Board, and for
the National Foundation- March of Dimes. Your
note was the first I heard about Muscular
Dystrophy!

If you could drop me a few (or even many)
note-worthy lines about your recollections
of him, I would certainly like to add them to
the grist.

Yes, I have enjoyed The Neurosciences, which
is fairly unusual source material in scientific
autobiography. The psychologists have been
much more systematical in seeking the like, viz.
the volume that Gardner Lindzey now edits.

One thing I learned for the first time from
your earlier works is that Sherrington had
worked with Koch: just one more astonishment
about his varied career.

I hope we can meet in November. My
aclendar is fairly clear through the 16th.

Sincerely,

 

/ PROFESSOR JOSHUA LEDERBERG
Department of Genetics

School of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

 

 

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