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THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM

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Professor J. Lederberg,
Department of Genetics,
Stanford University,
Stanford, Calif.,

U. S.A.

Dear Frofessor Lederberg,

This week I received a letter from my former student
David Yoffe informing me that there is a chance for him to ke
accepted as a guest worker in your Department. I should be
very happy for his sake, if this project would materialize. [I
am also convinced that he would avail himself weil of this
opportunity offered to him and that you would be satisfied with
his work.

, in his undergraduate study in our Department on the
biochemical basis of the silver nitrate phenocopy in Drosophila
Mr. Yoffe showed definite promise as a research worker. He
is very imaginative and, at the same time critical and perse-
vering. He has a good foundation in Zoology, Biochemistry and
Genetics. I think that Frofessor Rerenblum and Dr. ¥®eldman
of the Weizmann Institute will be able to revert on the scientific
progress he has made since he left us.

Mr. Yoffe has a quiet modest and cheerful personality
and is very well liked by his colleagues.

It is a coincidence that Wr. Yoffe's request for a
letter of recommendation reached me at a time wnen T intended
to write to you about an entirely different matter. The
University recently invited us to make epplications for visiting
professors from the U.S. ona "Short Fulbright" fellowship.
Notice was so short that there was no possibility to ask your
permission in advance, ‘Ye therefore ventured to put down your
name without your formal consent. I am afraid that the whole
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project is still rather vague, because we do not know which
of the various Departments will be given priority by the
University authorities and by Fulbright. However there is
dust a possibility that you might be contacted by Fulbright
and it had better not come as a surprise.

There is no need to stress, how happy we should be
if you could spare the time to come to this country and to
give a course of lectures on genetic microbiology. It is the
field which is not yet represented properly in our genetics
teaching, in spite of the fact that our interest comes to centre
on it more and more. We also feel that your presence here
might stimulate genetic research in every respect.

In conelusion I should like to thank you very much
for the reprints you kindly sent me recently.

LCi bachndt Yours sincerely,
Lar sanvudas mts Nh Usher Gelb, beeiet

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