MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
LABORATORY For NUCLEAR SCIENCE
CAMBRIDGE 39, MASSACHUSETTS

26/569

January 12, 1959

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Dept. of Biology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Thank you for your letter of December 2th and
for the suggestion of getting Professor Casperson interested in the
problem of detection of life on other Planets. I have talked it
over with Sal Luria and he agrees that it might be a good idea, As
you probably know, Luria will be on the West Coast at the end of this
month and he is planning to discuss this matter with you at that time.

We had a couple of informal meetings on the problem
of extra~terrestiral life. I am enclosing some notes summarizing the
discussion of the first meeting and I shall send you a similar summary
of the second meeting as soon as it is available,

I think it would be very useful if other meetings
such as ours were held in other parts of the country and I thought that
perhaps you and Dr. Stanier might be willing to organize such a meeting
in California in the near future. Then your group and ours could ex
change notes and perhaps come up with some definite proposals.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,
7B Ue Ren
Bruno Rossi

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