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- 23 September 1961-28 September 1965 (Creation)
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1 file
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Mainly comprises correspondence (1961-1963) relating to establishing the Salk Institute [earlier called the Institute for Biology at San Diego]. Correspondents are: Ed Lennox (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Mel Cohn (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Charles S. Wilson (New Jersey), C H Waddington (Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh), Jonas Salk, Jacques Monod (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Francis Crick (Cavendish Laboratory and Medical Research Council, Cambridge), C P Snow, William Glazier (University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine), Louis Cowan (New York), Albert Rosenfeld (Science Writer, Life Magazine), David Bonner (University of California at San Diego, offering laboratory space), Warren Weaver (Salk Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Renato Dulbecco (The University of Glasgow), Professor Inhelder (Geneva, Bronowski requesting to visit him and Professor Piaget), Hudson Hoagland (The Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, sending recommendations for fellows), Julian Huxley, Gerard Piel ('Scientific American'), and George Conn (Assistant Treasurer, Salk Institute).
Also includes: a one-page statement on the Salk Institute by Charles Snow (1962); a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Dr Augustus Kinzel (President, Salk Institute) about his salary and role as Deputy Director of the Institute (1965); and a letter from Bronowski to the Board of Trustees resigning from the post of Deputy Director as it was being abolished (1965).