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Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Marion Himes

Title:: Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Marion Himes
Creator:: Lederberg, Joshua
Recipient:: Himes, Marion
Date:: 14 September 1972
Description:: In the early 1970s, Lederberg worked diligently to dispel what he believed was the "myth" that Avery's work on the "transforming principle" was not widely appreciated by scientists when it first appeared in the mid-1940s. In this letter, Avery asked Himes how Avery was perceived at Columbia in 1944-45.
Location:: Box: 5. Folder: 2
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Subject:: Recombination, Genetic and History of Medicine
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Relation:: Letter from Marion Himes to Joshua Lederberg, 1972
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: CCAAJJ
NLM ID:: 101584575X224
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X224
Story Section:: After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community