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Excerpt from Wits diary note on visit 1/19/48 et University of Wisconsin.

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Later in the afternoon, WW goes to the Genetics Department, in
Agriculture, and talks with Alec Brink and Joshun Lederberg.

L's first impression is not startlingly good. He is a little

fat and somewhat sleepy and sloppy looking. But the minute he starts
to talk, you forget all this.

modestly, but very forcefully.

He speaks very well indeed - clearly,

He had done two years of medical training at Columbia before
he went to Yale and tried, on an initially tentative basis whether he would
not prefer biochemical genetics. His work with Tatum on sexual Fopro~
duction of bacteria is already well-known. He has blocked out a defin te
and most intriguing, program for himself at Wisconsin. It is well covers 3
by Brink's letter to WW of December 4, 1947; and by the meno which L. , 8
to WW. This seems an absolutely first-rate bet for an exnloratory gran
in aid. The University has already put more than $8000 into rebuilding
and equipping a 16'x10' laboratory for L.

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