Gallery 16: The Rockefeller Foundation funded Beadle's experiments.

The Rockefeller Foundation funded Beadle's experiments. This 1943 letter is a progress report Beadle wrote to the Rockefeller President.

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16364. Gallery 16: 1936 diary entry of Frank Blair Hanson

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16426. Gallery 19: Diary entry of Gerard R. Pomerat, Rockefeller Foundation science officer, 1953

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16361. Gallery 16: Young George Beadle, around 1908.

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16362. Gallery 16: George Beadle at work in his lab at Stanford.

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16366. Gallery 16: Beadle and assistant in the Neurospora storeroom at Stanford, 1949.

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16368. Gallery 16: George Beadle at the Nobel Awards ceremonies.

George Beadle at the Nobel Awards ceremonies.

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12187. "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1), including journal cover and contents page (2)

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