Two Jewish scientists, one of them a Nobel Prize winner, were awarded grants totaling $1,335,000 by the Joseph K. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation for research into mental retardation, it was announced here by R. Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law of the late President Kennedy, and his wife, Mrs; Eunice Shriver.
Of the total, $1,100,000 went to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Stanford University geneticist, who won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1958; and $225,000 was given to Dr. Harry Waisman, of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s department of pediatrics. Both scientists, as well as Mrs. Shriver, are members of the President’s Panel on Retardation. Dr. Lederberg is the son of Rabbi Zwi W. Lederberg, of Philadelphia.
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