Title:

Letter from Joshua Lederberg to John Burton Sanderson Haldane

Creator:

Lederberg, Joshua

Recipient:

Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson), 1892-1964

Date:

12 October 1946

Location:

Box: 6. Folder: 18

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBADZS

NLM ID:

101584906X2660

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X2660

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: April 13, 1999. Node: Haldane, JBS. Noted geneticisit of the age, with many anticipations in mathematical as well as physiological genetics. I first met him at the AAAS meetings in Boston, December 1946, along with Helen Spurway who carried her then favorite Habrobracon wasps in her purse. They were to be exemplary genetic material a/c haploid males allowing for immediate expression of mutant phenotypes. I have remained one of his devotees, notwithstanding our sharp divergence on political issues, and welcomed the chance to visit him in Calcutta in 1947. Cf: P-274; KW: Delbruck; Luria; statistical; distribution of mutants; Ryan reverse mutation; recombination in E coli; Sarkar; I query him for help on the statistics of correlated mutation at two loci. Haldane's analysis of the distribution is commented and updated by Sahotra Sarkar, 1991, Genetics 127:257-261. "Haldane's solution of the Luria-Delbruck distribution". jl 8/17/98 4/13/99

Story Section:

The Development of Bacterial Genetics

Lederberg Grouping:

CA. Correspondence A.