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J. LEDERBERG
a utami Kiyota of Kumamoto University, Japan,
who applied for an international fellowship to spend a year
with tme in neurochemistry, gave me your name as a reference,
We would appreciate your evaluation of Dr. Kiyota,

Sincerely yours, oF
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Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Ph.D. SS
Clinical Professor of Neurology
(Neurochemistry)

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I met or. Kiyoza at Kumamoto, where ZT found him to be doing some
excellent work on curare-receptor proteins under extremely adverse
conditions. At that time his speaking knowledge of Imglish was quite
limited, but he understood surprisingly well by contrast, an: I have
heard that in the past two years he has put in a good deal cf effort

on this. Iwas sufficiently well impressed to consider very seriously
asking him to smp spend a year at Stanford, but as we were really not
set up, I concluded that to put such an organizational burden on him as
well would be impractica} and unfair. I judge he is certainly doing as
good work in the field as anyone else, has a good grasp of basic problems
and of the world's literature, and is working with uncommon energy ond
enthusiasm. I liked him too, and would add that to the recommendatica;
he is a vergmum serious-minded and determined fellow, and I would like to
see him get an opportbnity to work under rather less oppressive conditions.

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