Title:

Letter from Eliot Stellar to Marshall W. Nirenberg

Creator:

Stellar, Eliot, 1919-1993
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Recipient:

Nirenberg, Marshall W.

Date:

20 March 1986

Description:

Stellar, chairman of the Committee of Human Rights for the National Academy of Sciences, provides Nirenberg with background on the important work of the committee, founded in 1976 at the request of NAS membership. Stellar provides examples of some of the cases with favorable outcomes including Pedro Castillo in Chile, Ismail Mohamed in South Africa, and Anatoly Scharansky in the Soviet Union. Nirenberg is invited to be a correspondent to the committee.

Location:

Box: 15. Folder: 26

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the University of Pennsylvania University Archives and Records Center. and Reproduced with permission of James R. Stellar.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

4 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

JJBBZD

NLM ID:

101584910X419

Profiles Collection:

The Marshall W. Nirenberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584910X419

Story Section:

Beyond the Laboratory: Professional, Personal, and Political Life, 1967-2002