JUL 16 1962
WORLD ACADEMY OF ART AND SCIENCE
AN AGENCY FOR HUMAN WELFARE

President. Lord J. Boyd Orr (Scotland) from the Hon. Secretary:
Vice Presidents: Wermann Joseph Muller {U.S.A.) 1 Ruppin Street,
d ed. Rehovot, Terael
Hugo Osvald (Sweden) P.O. B. 534

Hon. Secretary: Wago Boyko (Serael)
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15.June, 1962

Professor Dr. Joshua Lederberg
School of Medicine

Stanford University

California

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Dear Professor Lederberg, Dear Colleague;

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A meeting of Nobel Prize Laureates was originally planned
for March 11th, to be held at the Hotel Astor in New York, and it was
intended that at that time our Vice-President, Professor H.J.Muller, eK
would present our invitation to the participants to join the 40 Charter =
Members of the World Academy in their efforts towards a scientific and .
wiser approach to the vital problems of mankind. ~

However, this scientific meeting in New York had to be cancelled
for reasons beyond our control, and instead of it, a dinner party was
held by United States President, J.F.Kennedy on April, 29th, Although
our Vice-President was one of the participants, it was obvious that
this was neither the adequate place nor opportunity to transmit our
message. We have decided, therefore, to send the attached invitation-
letter of February 21st to all Nobel Prize Laureates by mail. Additional
informative material is being forwarded under separate cover as Air Mail-
to tO ee (According to the Statutes membership is restricted
to 350.

We are convinced that most or all of the Nobel Prize Laureates
will gladly join in our efforts to rally the best minds of our generation
and the generations to follow, in order to build a transnational forum,
one which will command that international esteem essential to the
eventual winning of a worldwide trust and cooperation,

I am pleased to inform you that even before we decided to send
out this invitation by mail, two of our Charter Members {( Hugo Osvald,
Representative of Science in the Swedish Senate, and P.van Oye, Past
President of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science) have already
approached their colleagues, Nobel Prize Laureates Arne Tiselius (Uppsala),
Hugo Theorell (Stockholm) and Corneille Heymans (Ghent) who immediately
accepted this invitation.

We trust that this cooperation of the highest ranking scientists

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in a transnational organization such as the World Academy, will
serve as a ray of hope for all and as a sign that science is
prepared not only to create the tools for a better future for
manki-d but also to provide formulas for their use.

I look forward to adding your name to our list of
Fellow Members of the World Academy, the founding of which
may well mark a turning point in the history of mankind.

With all test wishes

Yours very sincerely

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Honorary Secretary.

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