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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES “oe. EB

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

 

DIVISION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

20 February 1961

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

Dr. C. J. Lambertsen has requested, through the Space Science Board,
that this office assemble and forward to him the minutes of meetings of
the technical panels of the Bio-Astronautics Committee and biographical
sketches on scientific personnel active in bioastronautics. In the hope
that you may also find this information useful, we have prepared identi-
cal material for use by your Committee.

Under separate cover, we are mailing the minutes of meetings of the
Executive Council and technical panels, and a copy of the biographical
sketches on scientific personnel.

At a later date we will forward the minutes of a meeting of the
military representatives to the Executive Council which will contain
their recommendations regarding the activities and responsibilities
of the panels to be terminated or considered for continuation by the
Space Science Board.

The staff of the Executive Secretary of the. Bio-Astronautics Com-
mittee has attempted to identify scientists and assemble background
information on research workers capable of contributing to the de-
liberations of the various technical panels or specific working groups
under the direction of the panels. The initial background information
on the individuals was obtained by means of a questionnaire and in
many cases supplemented by information taken from the Men of Science.
Biographical sketches have been prepared on approximately 250 people
in the bioastronautics field and it has been very useful to our panel
chairmen on many occasions.

We are very happy to provide the above material and hope you will
not hesitate to call upon us for any additional assistance we might
render that would insure a continuity of effort between the Bio-Astro-
nautics Committee and the Space Science Board.

Sincerely,

OY loan

Clarence C. Cain

Asst. Executive Secretary

Armed Forces-NRC Committee
ccc/dck on Bio-Astronautics