Title:

Letter from Franz Schrader to Joshua Lederberg

Creator:

Schrader, Franz

Recipient:

Lederberg, Joshua

Date:

12 January 1952

Location:

Box: 8. Folder: 39

Rights:

Courtesy of Joshua Lederberg.

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Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

2 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

BBAMDN

NLM ID:

101584906X8140

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X8140

Annotation:

Author: Joshua Lederberg. Date Written: May 7, 1999. Node: Schrader, Franz. (1891-1962) Professor of Zoology at Columbia University while I was a student there. Successor to EB Wilson tradition in Cytology. His graduate courses was one of my first electives. He had a special interest in spindle mechanisms; and his book Mitosis was the last opus (actually rather thin) before the new era of tubulin studies. etc. My initial interests as a student were in the "physiology of mitosis", and F.S. was not really into that. Sally Hughes Schrader; was equally eminent, but in the gender-bound academic systems of the day could not also get a senior academic position. Pat Brown at Siena College is planning a book on such couples. The Schrader Diaries are in the Columbia Archives. Cf also Salome Waelsch experiences, not always happy with him. She tells of providing mice for my colchicine experiments precisely to annoy him. See Pat Brown - Siena College - biographical analysis, to be published; Cooper KW: J Cell Biol. 16:ix-xv 1963; DSB 1990. I am startled that he calls me Josh in this correspondence -- my recollections are (inaccurately?) or a much stiffer personality KW: **; Schrader's views on polyphyletic evolution of symbiosis; Steinhaus scheme; Pseudococcus; Buchner; He agrees with my emphasis on symbiosis!; geneticists too conservative; "recent attempt by the Genetics Society of America to 'excommunicate' Russia ..."; Sally Hughes Schrader; jl 3/12/99 , 4/13/99, 5/3/99

Lederberg Grouping:

CB. Correspondence B.