September 20, 1963

Or. Pauling

Department of Chemistry

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena 4, Call fornia

Dear Or. Pauling:

Would you have 8 place in your anesthesia program for an able Japanese
neurochemist who is most angious to see science In the U.S.7 Main
limitation - his spoken English was primitive, but I suspect he has
been studying diligently. He has actually made some significant
contributions in the study of brain proteins (curare-binding and now
phenothiazine-bindIng), and he plainly could be beautifully comple-
mentary to the other sclentific capabllitiles in your laboratory. If

| had as explicitly focussed a problem as anesthesia going in my own
laboratory, | would happily take him on here. Our present situation,
however, calls for a rather higher degree of autonomous responsibility
than | could confide In him with the language problem.

Kumamoto Is as remote a place research-wise as you could find, and {
was especially Impressed what Kiyota could accomplish in the circum-
stances. :

Yours truly,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL:as

Enclosure: Curriculum vitae
J. Neurochem. 9:555 (1962)