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March 16,2945’

Dear Delbrick:

I wonder whether you are still looking around far ;
possible candidates for the opm@ming in Blology at Vanderbilt
Tao people have occurred to me recently and I thought it misht
ket worth while to pass along their names to you for considers-

On. . :

The first you my dispose of very quickly,but just on the
chance that you may not,here be isza Chinese man of outstand-
ing ebility,-T.T.Chene I mve Imown Chen well for many years
and can vouch for his ability,incustry and excellant personal
qualities. He has been at Oberlin,Hopkina and U.C.LeA. He tg
a oytologist snd has done all of his work on the Protoma,
especially on their chromosomede There la little doudt but
that he is the top man in the world on chromosome cytology
of Protozoa. In skill and accomplishments in this field he

would be in the class with Barbara WacClintock in plant eS

chromosome cytology. For the last 10 years.approximitely,

he hag been tecmically a research agsistant to Jennings,

but aotually he has been a completely indcecendent investigator,
merely working on the seme material as Jennings. I'd te clad
to sand yol 4 bdDibliogravhy of his more important pubdlisatlona,
if you are interested. He is about forty years old,pernaps a
little more, Bactuse of the racial difficulty,he has had,I
velleve no teaching position;but I have often heard him lsoture
nd can assure you that he ts a first olass lecturer. Ha ig

& peffeotionist in all things,-in his cytological prevarations,
in his drawings,in his orgmnization and presentation of mtertal
beth in print and orally. He is also full of enthusiasm mad
would,I am sure,mike a stimulating teacher. Jennings is begine
ning to feel very mnxlous about placing Chen before he retires
from active work himself,so that I feel quite sure Chan youla
be glad to accept a reasonably mod offer. If ym got Chen,
you'd have something to be proud of.

The second man is now on the staff at Notre D,me and has
had very extensive and varied teaching experlLence there. This
is hig only teaching Job as he went there imrediately after
receiving his Ph.D. under Kimball at Hopkins. You could write
Just,the head of the Demrtment there,as to how successful
he has been in his work at Notre Dame. He was at Hopkins
during may last year there and started his graduate work under
my direction,soe I have some notion of his capacitiles,at least
at that time. He was a very good studont and ia extremly
anbitious in research,has his eye on important problems and
is determined to Diild a name for Eibmself. Hoe is at present
estting,i believe,a salary of S5C0,but hésis so overburdened
with teaching that he would be willing to take less,if necessary,
in order to have some tims free for his research. He has dons
ali his work so far on Enplotes,the same orgunism that Kimball
worked on,and has cone very good jobs. Kimbalil,as you probably
Imow,hag definitely abandoned work on Euplotes ad the very

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4nteresting possibilities which he opensd up are likely
-pemain vndone,unless Powers 2863 4 opportunity to carry on.
Powers is in fact attempting (under very adverse sircums tances)

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to do just that. He wants to push ahead on tre mating tyoe

| hormones end,if possible,connect them up with mtigen-antibody

rr noe Powers is a mm with a very attractive personality
rea would st believe ,fit in well with your grouy,m rticularly
as he is by birth a Southemer. If you want further information
about him,I'd. be glad to expand. You might also write to
Kimball end Jemings about him if you care to do 30,

Chen is,I telteve,still unmarried: Powers has a wife end,
I belisve,tvo sail children. Powera is about thirty years old,
or perhaps a year one way or the other.

With beat regards to you and yar wiffs,

Yours »

T .&.Sonnedorn