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Letter from Bernard D. Davis to Joshua Lederberg

Title:: Letter from Bernard D. Davis to Joshua Lederberg
Creator:: Davis, Bernard D., 1916-1994
Recipient:: Lederberg, Joshua
Date:: 6 October 1972
Description:: In this letter to Lederberg, Davis regretted that he could not provide more first-hand experience as to the reception of Avery's "transforming principle" during the mid-1940s. Davis directed Lederberg to Stent's "Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology," which he referred to as "a much more serious distortion of [Avery's] early history."
Location:: Box: 5. Folder: 2
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of Elizabeth M. Davis.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Subject:: Transformation, Genetic and History of Medicine
Format:: Text
Extent:: 2 pages
Relation:: Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Bernard D. Davis, 1972
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: CCAAJU
NLM ID:: 101584575X234
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X234
Story Section:: After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community