LABORATOIRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE
UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
Quai de I’Ecole-de-Médecine 24 Genéve, le 28th November 1958

Professor J. L&D ARBERG
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin
U.S.A.

Dear Prof. Lederberg,

Thank you very much for your letter. I am still very interested in
a visiting trip to the States and plan seriously to organize it for next year.
I am extremely hanvy that you may possibly find some help for the realisation
of this nroject. I do not yet know the most suitable months; perhaps the
summer vacation veriod, which would be best for me, may be not well suited for
the visit of laboratories in the States. Would June-July be better? I would be
extremely glad to- visit Stanford? I thought to visit also the laboratories of
Hershey (Demerec), Luria, Watson Levinthal, Anderson, Williams and Del brtick-

Dulbecco.
Considering more durable arrangements, I must say that I am still

unfixed in my mind. It is true that my own position and that of my laboratory
may become established soon. All mommittees agreed in pronosing a professorshin
("extraordinaire") with the direction of the laboratory. The government has now
to satisfy this and pronose a salary. All this does unfortunately not create
the missing general scientific atmosvhere at our university where the project
of creating a center of virology and microbiology was not accepted (too exnen-

sive)
Needless to tell you how glad we all were, when we heard that you

received the Nobel vrize ! This gives us the hapvy feeling, that the sort of
research you initiated all over the world made a path forward to be generally
accepted ! You may know that in Eurone, most vrofessors of Zoologie and Bo-~

tanics ("suecédané" of Biology) don't know anything about bacterial and virus
genetics, or have just heard some rumors which are accepted with highest scentie®

cism !
I thank you very much for your kindness and send you and your wife

my best regards,
Yours sincerely

C ptevaol

EB. Xellenberger