Title:

Letter from Max Zelle to Joshua Lederberg

Creator:

Zelle, Max

Recipient:

Lederberg, Joshua

Date:

27 January 1947

Location:

Box: 6. Folder: 84

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of Phil Zelle.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBAGGS

NLM ID:

101584906X4187

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X4187

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: December 1, 1998. Node: Max Zelle, previously at Ft. Detrick during WW-2; in 1947 at NIH, had studied at Iowa State (with John Gowen). At the 1946 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium, he inervened in my debate with Andre Lwoff who had questioned the "single-cell purity" of recombinant prototroph clones. He offered to do single cell isolations himself, and to advise me on the methodology. Subsequently we collaborated on single cell isolations of heterozygous diploids, putting an end to that source of contention. He became interested in radiobiology ; Prof Bacteriology at Cornell; several offices in AEC; and then joined Colorado State University at Ft. Collins. See BBAGKM for bibliography and CV. Much of the correspondence entails details of our collaboration, == lab notes. KW: P-4; P-22; single cell isolation; jl 12/1/98

Lederberg Grouping:

CA. Correspondence A.