Title:

Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Creator:

Lederberg, Joshua

Recipient:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Date:

25 June 1969

Location:

Box: 67. Folder: 5

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBGAAI

NLM ID:

101584906X13639

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X13639

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: February 12, 1999. KW: Crichton novel; they changed venue in later printings; Jeremy Stone; planetary quarantine; In the novel, see pp. 45 ff. Stone is a professor of bacteriology at Stanford, Nobel Laureate at a young age, with a record of research in microbial genetics, also deeply concerned about biological warfare. He writes a letter to the President warning about the need for planetary quarantine, in both directions. There is a real Jeremy Stone who might also complain about the appropriation of his name. This Stone hjas been the long time prime mover of the Federation of American Scientists , and deeply involved in many aspects of disarmament, nuclear and otherwise. jl 2/12/99 B. Davis told me that Michael Crichton had been a student in his microbiology class at Harvard Medical School, and he would have heard about my genetics work at that time. My calendar refers to a Viking meeting on June 18. jl 2/12/99

Story Section:

Launching a New Science: Exobiology and the Exploration of Space

Lederberg Grouping:

NONE. No Epoch.