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Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS [1] (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) [2] was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
Biographical. Joshua Lederberg was born in Montclair, N.J. on May 23, 1925. He was brought up in the Washington Heights District of Upper Manhattan, New York City, where he received his education in Public School 46, Junior High School 164 and Stuyvesant High School.
Joshua Lederberg was an American geneticist and a pioneer in the field of bacterial genetics. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum) for discovering the mechanisms of genetic recombination in bacteria.
Mar 26, 2008 · Lederberg, who died on 2 February 2008, became a brilliant biologist and an exceptional leader whose influence extended to space science and computing. He was educated at...
Feb 2, 2008 · Joshua Lederberg. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958. Born: 23 May 1925, Montclair, NJ, USA. Died: 2 February 2008, New York, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University’s fifth president, won a share of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of genetic transfer in bacteria. Through the 1940s, scientific wisdom had it that bacteria do not have genetic mechanisms similar to those of higher organisms.
Feb 5, 2008 · Joshua Lederberg, PhD, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for his discovery of how bacteria transfer genes, died Feb. 2 of pneumonia. He was 82. Months after winning the Nobel Prize, Lederberg arrived at the Stanford University School of Medicine to become the chair of genetics in 1959, after leaving his post at the University of Wisconsin.
Feb 5, 2008 · Joshua Lederberg, one of the 20th century’s leading scientists, whose work in bacterial genetics had vast medical implications and led to his receiving a Nobel Prize in 1958, died on...
Joshua Lederberg's path-breaking research into the molecular mechanisms of gene action made him one of the founders of molecular biology in the 1940s and 1950s. A prodigy who received the Nobel Prize at age 33, he helped lay the groundwork for genetic engineering, modern biotechnology, and genetic approaches to medicine.
Mar 7, 2008 · Joshua Lederberg was one of the great scientists of our age. With his death on 2 February, the world has lost one of its foremost scientific intellects, as well as an extraordinary humanitarian. These qualities were apparent early in his life.
