The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture's Modern Dreams. By Beatriz Sarlo; translated by Xavier Callahan. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiii, 185. Notes. $60.00 cloth.

2009 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-424
Author(s):  
Odile Cisneros
Keyword(s):  
Stanford University ◽  
Palo Alto ◽  
Beatriz Sarlo

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-311
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Palo Alto ◽  
North Central ◽  
The Third ◽  
Baylor University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Vanderbilt University ◽  
And Child Health

The Third Biennial Seminar on Prematurity will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, February 22-23, 1969. Guest speakers will be Dr. Thomas K. Oliver, University of Washington, Seattle; Dr. Arnold J. Rudolph, Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Dagmar Cechanek, R.N., Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, California; Dr. Mildred Stahlman, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; and Mrs. Rose Grobstein, MSW, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California. Registration fee, $7.50. For information write: Frederic W. Baum, M.D., Director, Maternal and Child Health Division, Goodrich Building, 14 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004.

The Lederbergs’ Stanford Years, 1959–1976

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Schindler
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Palo Alto ◽  
Reference Center ◽  
The World

This chapter picks up the story of Esther’s life after she and her husband moved to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1959, and Joshua became chairman of the newly formed Genetics Department. The Lederbergs separated in September 1966, divorced in 1967, and a year later, Joshua married Marguerite Stein, a thirty-year-old divorcee and pediatrician. Esther Lederberg collaborated with her husband less and less after the move to Stanford. When they separated, Esther was suddenly exiled from the laboratory, cut off from research funding, and facing uncertain employment prospects. After winning the Nobel Prize, Joshua began collaborating with new colleagues in chemistry, engineering, and computer science. He became an international proponent of exobiology. In 1976, Esther Lederberg became director of the Plasmid Reference Center of Stanford University. Although it was not a research position, she applied her extensive knowledge of plasmids and bacteria to curating one of the largest collections in the world. She held this position until her retirement in 1985.

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