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Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Torbjorn Caspersson

Title:: Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Torbjorn Caspersson
Creator:: Lederberg, Joshua
Recipient:: Caspersson, Torbjo?rn (Torbjo?rn Oskar), 1910-1997
Date:: 3 October 1972
Description:: Lederberg wrote this memo to Caspersson requesting information on the Nobel Foundation's consideration of Avery in the 1940s and 1950s, largely in reaction to Vivian Wyatt's 1972 article in "Nature."
Location:: Box: 5. Folder: 2
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Subject:: History of Medicine and Nobel Prize
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: CCAAPT
NLM ID:: 101584575X388
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X388
Story Section:: After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community