Diary entry by Lederberg upon hearing he had won the Nobel Prize

Title:: Diary entry by Lederberg upon hearing he had won the Nobel Prize
Creator:: Lederberg, Joshua
Date:: 26 October 1958
Location:: Box: 3. Folder: 7
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Memoirs
Format:: Text
Extent:: 2 pages
Relation:: Typed transcript of diary entry by Lederberg upon hearing he had won the Nobel Prize, 1958
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: BBAKZD
NLM ID:: 101584906X7360
Profiles Collection:: The Joshua Lederberg Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X7360
Annotation:: Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: April 19, 2000. KW: Nobel, diary entry; compare Landsteiner reaction.; see Peyton Rous' memoir on Landsteiner appended; [Obituary Notices of Fellows of The Royal Society 1945-1948 Vol.V Karl Landsteiner 1868-1943 by Peyton Rous page 307] The doubting habit never made Landsteiner a cynic, though now and again it found personal application. In 1930 the news that he had won the Nobel Prize was blared in all the afternoon papers and a shower of journalistic announcements, queries and comments came down upon him at the laboratory; yet this was wholly unconvincing to him. A friend who called at his home that evening to congratulate him found the family reading quietly, secure from telephone or radio, as if all unaware. And unaware his wife and son actually were, for Landsteiner had not mentioned the prize lest later they be disappointed concerning it.; jl 1/23/99; 2/14/99 4/19/00
Story Section:: Transduction, Plasmids, and the Foundation of Biotechnology
Lederberg Grouping:: NONE. No Epoch.