As a follow up to my previous post about a symposium in honor of Josh Lederberg that is coming up in Washington on Tuesday. There is a nice collection of his “papers” on the web – Profiles in Science: The Joshua Lederberg Papers
By papers they mean everything – letters, notes, drafts, communications, etc. It is quite comprehensive and quite interesting including many discussions with other leading researchers key moments in the history of 20th century biological sciences research. It is worth checking out. I note – despite the availability of this great collection, one part of this life as a scientists is not completely freely available – his publications. Not all are at this site and many are hidden behind the walls of various journals. What a shame. Just about every one of his papers is worth reading.

I wonder if in the future we’ll have archives of the e-mails of famous scientists…
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These databases are a great resource for us writers. I used the Lederberg archive while working on my book Microcosm.
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wait for the next post Carl …
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