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OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE

September 14, 1959

Prof. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Dear Professor Iederberg:

At the meeting on Basic Research at The Rockefeller Institute,
Jim Watson from Harvard and I got together and discussed what
could be done to get some more basic information on low level
effects of radiation in relation to leukemia, toxicity of
Strontium 90, genetical induction, and especially to determine
if there is a threshold of very low levels of radiation.

We know these are very tough and complicated problems, but they are

so urgent that we feel they should be discussed for the purpose of
determining at least if some reasonable experiments can be set up as

a beginning to the study of them. Most of us have been worrying about
these problems for a long time, and I think the time has come that
something should be done.

With the approval of Dr. Bronk and under the auspices of the National
Academy of Sciences, we are now calling a small group together to
discuss the possibility of formulating a plan for acquiring definite
information on these problems.

We would like to invite you most cordially to join this meeting which
has been scheduled for October 30 and 31 in Washington, D.C. Your
travel expenses in connection with this meeting will be taken care of
by funds which have been set aside by the National Research Council,

according to their policies. We will give you more details as to
location, time and reimbursement as soon as we know if you will be
with us.

Please let me know as soon as possible whether we can count on you.
Attached is a list of invitees to this meeting.

Best personal regards,
Sincerely yours,

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Alexander Hollaender
Biology Division

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Enclosure
Invitees to October 30-31 Meeting

Beadle, G. W.
Brues, A. M.
Dulbecco, R.
Dunham, Charles
Hicks, Samuel
Hollaender, Alexander
Kaplan, Henry S.
law, Lloyd W.
lederberg, Joshua
lewis, Edward B.
Luria, 5. E.
Rogers, Stanfieh
Russell, W. L.
Upton, A. C.
Watson, J. D.

Zelle, Max R.

California Institute of Technology -
Argonne National Laboratory

California Institute of Technology +
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

New England Deaconess Hospital

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Stanford University School of Medicine ¢
National Cancer Institute

Stanford University

California Institute of Technology «
University of Illinois

University of Tennessee Memorial Research Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Harvard University

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

 
BIOLOGY DIVISION

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY
ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH

 

 

CYTOLOGY AND

MAMMALIAN GENETICS

RADIATION PROTECTION —

NUCLEIC ACID CHEMISTRY

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENT LIVING CELLS PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Paramecium Section Chief Alexanderffjollaender* 5 W. E. Cohn Plant Physiology
Tradescantia W.L. Russell G. E. Stapletd . F. J. Botlum
Vicia H. |. Adler J. X. Khym A. H. Haber
Hordeum Genetic Effects of M. S. Engel
Neurospora Radiation in Mice A. Marie McCarthy Photosynthesis
Maize
Phage Elizabeth M. Kelly W. A. Arnold

L. Wickham NUCLEIC ACID ENZYMOLOGY
R. F. Kimball J hine S. G 4
0. Carolyn Wells! osepnine 9. lower PATHOLOGY AND
S. Wol ff PHYSIOLOGY E. Volkin
D. Davidson? Effects of Radiation on L. Astrachan BIOPHYSICS
D. Schwartz Mammalian Gametogenesis Section Chief / th
Barbara A. Swomley! A. C. Upton J. S. Kirby-Smit
D. R. Kri E. F. Oakberg J. Jagger
. R. Krieg
D. M. Green! . CHEMICAL PROTECTION M. L. Randolph
F. J. de Serres Developmental Effects of Pathological Effects AND
H. G. Kglmark? Radiation in Mice of Radiation PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME STUDIES
B. B. Webber! . G.E.C
Liane B. Russell - &. Cosgrove
V. C. Monesi2 W. H, Benedict* , D. G. Doherty BIOMETRICS
Grasshopper and Habrobracon c 7 ‘io F.C. Grimm! (Mathematics Panel)
. . . 1st Owicz
Mary E. Gaulden Mammalian Cytogenetics U. H. Ebling? A. W. Kimball
D. M. Prescott W. J. Welshons M. A. Kastenbaum
R. C. von Borstel? E.H. Y. Chu Physiologica! and ENZYMOLOGY
J. G. Carlson4 ysiological an
Anna R. Whiting! Chemical Effects G. D. Novelli
K. B. Jacob
T. T. Odell, Jr. ET.Kenney BIOLOGY LIBRARY
Drosophila MAMMALIAN RECOVERY W. Friedberg R. J. Mans
R. A. Popp H. D. Peck, Jr Li
D. L. Lindsley Hematopoietic Recovery oO. Vv. Muderri soglu? M. P. Stulberg . (ORNL Library Branch)
E. H. Grell a
B Nicoletti? C. C. Congdon C.J. Wust Minnie B. Duncan
\ i 4 Electron Microsco R. W. Bernlohr®
Rhoda F. Grell4 R. R. Bigelow Py
G. Doria? T. Kameyoma
M. B. Lion? E. B. Darden, } Charlotte R. Lea!
S. Rogers! D. F. Parsons Mary-Lowell B. Taylor!
O. Vos? W.H. Taylor, Jr! *Division Director

 

Bone Marrow Physiology
L. H. Smith

Joan W. Goodman

Histology and
Autoradiography

W. D. Gude

K. Tonomura?

 

 

 

 

Tissue Culture

M. A. Bender
T. T. Phan?

 

Animal Breeding and
Maintenance

T. W. McKinley, Jr.
J.C. Kile, Jr.4

 

MICROBIOLOGY

S. F. Carson**
R. K. Clayton
M. I. Dolin?
E. F. Phares

 

 

 

 

 

RADIATION IMMUNOLOGY

T. Makinedan

N. Gengozian

E. H. Perkins

E. E. Capalbo?

F. Celada?

R. D. Owen4

Isabel C. Shekarchi*

 

 

CELL PHYSIOLOGY

N. G. Anderson
P. Mazur

H. E. Bond!

B. T. Cole®

E. C. Horn4

 

 

 

 

**Assistant Division Director

Research Associate

2Visiting Investigator from Abroad

3Leave of Absence, NSF Senior Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Pavia, italy

4Consultant

>Research Participant

SUSPHS Fellow

7Leave of Absence, Guggenheim Fellowship,
Paris, France