Title:

Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Edward L. Tatum

Creator:

Lederberg, Joshua

Recipient:

Tatum, Edward L. (Edward Lawrie), 1909-1975

Date:

19 September 1945

Description:

An important early piece of correspondence between the two scientists on what would eventually be the basis for their Nobel Prize-winning research, i.e., sexual recombination in bacteria. The letter embodies Lederberg's proposal to Tatum to search for such genetic recombination. The letter was written by Lederberg from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was a medical student in the last months of the Navy V-12 program, the war (World War II) having ended only weeks before.

Location:

Box: 8. Folder: 83

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Cell Culture Techniques, Escherichia coli, and Genetics, Microbial

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBAAAC

NLM ID:

101584906X3

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X3

Story Section:

The Development of Bacterial Genetics

Lederberg Grouping:

CA. Correspondence A.