HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE OF THE DEAN

December 15, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Bernie Davis told me that he had sent you a note to express his delight
at the recent recognition that has come -- at long last -- from the
Nobel Committee for Physiology and Medicine.

Because I think it might please you to know about it, I send you in
confidence the copy of a letter that went on January 25, 1958 to the
Royal Caroline Medical Institute at Stockholm urging recognition by the
award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1958 for you

and some of those who have been stimulated by your brilliant work. As
you will see from the letter that I sent in as the nomination of the
Harvard group, Bernie wrote most of the letter for us -- he is the best
qualified of our group to analyze this field that is so rapidly enriching
biological knowledge.

It was my great misfortune to be away from town when you were here on
November 13th. On that occasion I had to be in New York attending the
annual. meeting of the Corporation and Board of Directors of the
Commonwealth Fund. Had I been in Boston, I should have told you what
I am now putting in a letter.

I wish you could have heard the countless enthusiastic comments that
were made on your lecture and your contributions to informal discussions
here. I am terribly sorry that I had to miss your visit.

Singerely yours,

George Packer Berry, M.D.
Dean

With best wishes,

~
mee

GPB:mr,j _—
cc: Dr. Bernard’ D. Davis