(SCIENTISTS) TIME Magazine cover Signed by 14 of the scienti

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MEN OF THE YEAR (1961) (SCIENTISTS.) TIME Magazine cover Signed by 14 of the scientists featured on the cover, each near the relevant portrait, some vertically. The cover, from the January 2, 1961 issue featuring 15 U.S. scientists selected as the magazine's Men of the Year (lacking Joshua Lederberg's signature). Latin America Edition. 4to; irregular left edge, folds. Np, 1961-63

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George Beadle • Charles Stark Draper. "C.S. Draper" • John Franklin Enders. "John F Enders" • Donald A. Glaser • Willard Libby. "W.F. Libby" • Linus Pauling • Edward Mills Purcell. "EMPurcell" • Isidor Isaac Rabi. "I.I. Rabi" • Emilio Segrè • William Shockley. "Wm Shockley" • Edward Teller • Charles H. Townes. "Chas. H. Townes" • James Van Allen. "JA Van Allen" • Robert Burns Woodward. "RBWoodward."
With--Two Typed Letters, each Signed by Charles H. Townes or Joshua Lederberg, agreeing or declining to send signed magazine cover, to Randall Salas: Townes. "Chas. H. Townes" • Lederberg. ". . . I, all of us, have surely more pressing demands on our time than warrants worrying about whether to respond to requests of this sort. I don't want to encourage them . . . . So if your son wishes, let him take this as an answer to his request, or better still, leave it as an admonition to spend his efforts at searching for deeper realities than these autographic hand-scratchings. . . ." Each 1 page, 4to, "Office of the Provost" or "Department of Genetics" stationery. Cambridge, 3 August 1962; Palo Alto, 20 June 1963.