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                  STUREGATAN 14
       Telephone: 65 09 20
           Cable:  NOBELIANUM, Stockholm
(4 encls.)

Dear Dr Luria,

   The Nobel Foundation has been informed about the
decision of

THE ROYAL CAROLINE MEDICO-CHIRURGICAL INSTITUTE

at their session on October 16th. 1969  to award you this
year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, jointly with
Professor Max Delbrfick,  California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, Calif., U.S.A., and Doctor Alfred D. Hershey,
Director,  Genetic Research Unit, Carneg+* TnstitUtiOn, Long
Island, N.Y., U.S.A.

   h'e beg to offer you our best congratulations and
invite you to participate in  the hobe Festival in
Stockholm on the hobel Day, December lOth, in order to
receive your prize in person.  !<e would appreciate having
your answer by cable because of the time factor in con-
nection with the preparations for the event.

   For your guidance we include an Aide-Memoir-e re-
garding events in connection with the Prize I'resent-
ation Ceremony.  Should you so desire, we will advance
some of the prize money through a bank indicated by you,

   We ask you to please return to the Foundation at
your very earliest convenience and by air-mail the en-
closed questionary regarding your intentions and your
wishes.

    Further we enclose a Memorandum about the material
needed for our annual publication "Les Prix hobel" as
well as a form for a copyright assignment concerning
your Nobel Lecture, stipulated in the Statutes of the
Foundation;  you will find further information regarding
the assignment in the above-mentioned Memorandum. We
should be most grateful to you for leaving with us be-
fore departure from Stockholm the different items enum-
erated in this Memorandum in order to avoid undue delay
of the publication.

Professor Salvador E. Luria, M.D.
Department of Microbiology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
C a m b r i d g e, Massachusetts 02139

U. S. A.


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   In case you should not be able to come to Stock-
holm for the Prize Presentation you are kindly request-
ed to send at your early convenience the material in-
dicated in the Memorandum (except the manuscript of the
Nobel Lecture to be delivered later) to the Editor of
"Les Prix Nobel", c/o the Nobel Foundation, address as
above.

   For your information you will,receive..- under sep-
arate cover by air-mail -  the following material:

"Les Prix Nobel",  last year's volume
Calendar of the Nobel Foundation
Code of Statutes of the Nobel Foundation
A small brochure:  "4lfred Nobel and the Nobel
               Prizes".

    "Les Prix ,?;obel" may be of interest to you, i.a.
because of the Nobel Lectures published therein. In
the Calendar you will find names and addresses of re-
levant institutions and persons.

    All invitation cards and other information mat-
erial will be handed over to you at your arrival.

   We hope that in this letter with enclosures you
will find an answer to some of the questions which may
present themselves to you. Should you, however, need
further particulars,  please do not hesitate to enquire.

   Your cooperation in the above-mentioned respects
will be much appreciated.  A prompt reply will greatly
facilitate matters for us.

Nils K.'StAhle

Executive Director of the
  Nobel Foundation