KW: Nobel, diary entry; compare Landsteiner reaction.;
see Peyton Rous' memoir on Landsteiner appended;
[Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society 1945-1948 Vol.V
Karl Landsteiner 1868-1943 by Peyton Rous page 307]
The doubting habit never made Landsteiner a cynic, though now and
again it found personal application. In 1930 the news that he had won
the Nobel Prize was blared in all the afternoon papers and a shower of
journalistic announcements, queries and comments came down upon him
at the laboratory; yet this was wholly unconvincing to him. A friend
who called at his home that evening to congratulate him found the
family reading quietly, secure from telephone or radio, as if all
unaware. And unaware his wife and son actually were, for Landsteiner
had not mentioned the prize lest later they be disappointed concerning
it.;
jl 1/23/99; 2/14/99 4/19/00
[Typed transcript of diary entry by Lederberg upon hearing he had won the Nobel Prize] (October 26, 1958)