YALE UNIVERSITY
OSBORN BOTANICAL LABORATORY
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

May 12, 1947 a] I> / ?-/
Box 7

Professor R. A. Brink
Department of Genetics

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Brink:

As you suggested in your letter, there are few men
at present trained and qalified to work in the field of genetics of
microorganisms. A few possibilities may be suggested, however, although
you may already have considered some of then.

Dr. Adrian M. Srb - Ph. D. with Dr. G. W. Beadle at
Stanford University, now at Stanford, but I have heard he has been
offered a position at Cornell.

Dr. A. H. Doermann ~ Ph. D. at Stanford University.
Has been with Dr. Max Delbruck at Vanderbilt University for the past
two years.

Mr. David Regnery - I think he gets his Ph, D. this
year from the California Institute of Technology and is going back to
Stanford as Instructor.

These three have done their doctoral research with,
Neurospora. I would suggest you contact Dr. Beadle for further information
on them,

I have a young man, Mr. Joshua Lederberg, with me at
present who will finish his Ph. D. work this summer. T consider him
perhaps the most promising young man yet trained in this field. He is
now planning to go back to P, and S. this fall to finish his medical
course, However, his interest is in research, and I believe his ability
and brilliance will more than offset his youth (22) and race. His work
with me on the genetics of E. coli has been extremely fine. Whether or
not Lederberg finishes his medical work may depend in part on what other
Ppportunities open up. I would suggest, if you are interested in hin,
that you write me for more information and giving more details of the
position, ‘

’ I can think of only one more possibility at present.
This is Dr. Albert Kelner, Ph. D. at Pennsylvania several years ago,
Professor R. A. Brink
May 12, 1947
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and now with Dr. M. Demerec at Cold Spring Harbor. He is well recommend-
ed by Dr. A. N. Richards, but those who talked with him here recently
were not too well impressed.

Please give my best regards to Bob Irwin.

Sincerely yours,

OL Teh

E. L. Tatum
Professor of Microhi ology

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