HERSHEY ALFRED: (1908-1997) American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1969. Typed Manuscript, unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p., 14^th May 1970. Hershey responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, to be used for their book Panorama of the Human Mind, with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Were your scientific “debut” easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living enable you to make yourself known in science? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as the best? 4. What is your “maxim of life” (or motto)?' Hershey's typed answers appear beneath and state, in full, '1. In my day and for a person of my economic status a college education was seldom possible, to say nothing of graduate school. Nevertheless, I have the impression that I always followed the path of least resistance. 2. I have always been dependent on my earnings as a scientist. As far as I know, my work reached the scientific public only through the means of communication available to all scientists. 3. My principal work had to do with mechanisms of inheritance as seen in bacterial viruses. 4. The greatest happiness, and the rarest privilege, available to humans is the opportunity to think about one thing day and night'. Together with a printed 8vo pamphlet entitled The Bacteriophage Lambda, being a paper authored by Alfred Hershey and William Dove and originally published in 1971, signed ('Alfred Hershey') by Hershey in blue ink with his name alone to the cover. VG to EX, 2