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Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Mordecai L. Gabriel

Title:: Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Mordecai L. Gabriel
Creator:: Lederberg, Joshua
Recipient:: Gabriel, Mordecai Lionel, 1918-
Date:: 14 September 1972
Description:: In the early 1970s, Lederberg worked diligently to dispel what he believed was the "myth" that Avery's work on the "transforming principle" was not widely appreciated by scientists when it first appeared in the mid-1940s. In this letter, Lederberg asked Gabriel if he could relate his recollections of his initial reaction to the 1944 article by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty.
Location:: Box: 5. Folder: 2
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Relation:: Letter from Mordecai L. Gabriel to Joshua Lederberg, 1972
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: CCAAJH
NLM ID:: 101584575X222
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X222
Story Section:: After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community