Chapter 13: How the West was Won

The contretemps at Berkeley was over by mid-March 1958, but fortunately, Lederberg had kept several balls in the air. In fact, he was already in the midst of finalizing negotiations with the medical school at Stanford University — the perfect fit, as it turned out. Actually, he had been offered a position in the biology department of Stanford in 1956; he and Esther had gone there for a visit during the winter of 1957, but he was not keen on the position or the university…