Title:

Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Jim Hirsch

Creator:

Lederberg, Joshua

Recipient:

Hirsch, Jim

Date:

16 January 1980

Location:

Box: 33. Folder: 86

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBGBYZ

NLM ID:

101584906X14948

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X14948

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: August 5, 2002. KW: Heidelberger - 1918 sulfonamides; delay in discovery; The page of Heidelberger memoir is 248 in 'A "pure" organic chemist's downward path", Ann Rev Microbiol 31:1-12 (1977); reprinted in AR Excitement and Fascination of Science, Vol. 2. It recounts the synthesis of sulfanilamide in 1918, but overlooking its utility a/c low potency and nat bactericidal. also to Jules Hirsch; jl 12/23/99 8/5/02

Lederberg Grouping:

CE. Correspondence E.