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JOSHUA LEDERBERG

PRESIDENT

Dr. Leon Eisenberg
Department of Psychiatry
Childrens Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Dear Leon:

I am delighted to respond to your request for an ap-
praisal of Dr. Beatrix A. Hamburg for a professorship at
Harvard. I am not the one to give you a detailed peer
appraisal of her research in psychiatry of adolescents
Since this is rather out of my own field of scientific
expertise. However, I have sat on search and appraisal
committees and have received abundant support for her
professional work from others in the field.

What I can offer about Betty is the fruit of almost
20 years of quite close association with her as _ well as
her husband David. In the course of that entire time
hardly a month has gone by that I have not had the chal-
lenge and reward of matching wits with her over the
broadest possible range of issues, ranging from my own
science to hers, and including every other aspect of aca-
demic medical interest, as well as innumerable other
issues of psychiatric, social and science policy. She
has one of the shrewdest intellects I know in her ability
to penetrate to the heart of any problem; to ask concise
cogent questions that clear up as much for the questionee
as for herself. She is a person of extraordinary integ-
rity and practical idealism and one you cannot afford not
to have on your faculty. a

If there were any possibility of her being interested
in a position in New York I would hasten to invent an aca-
demic vacancy, if necessary, and be confident of abundant
harvest doubly from her own investigative programs and from
her role of roving intellect throughout the programs of the
institution.
Dr. Leon Eisenberg
December 13, 1979

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Obviously I believe you are very lucky to have an
opportunity to recruit her and I hope she will be as
happy with you as you surely will be with her performance.

You Sincerely,

  

Josfiua Lederberg