Lederberg

American  

[led-er-burg] / ˈlɛd ərˌbɜrg /

noun

1. Joshua, 1925–2008, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.

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Lederberg British  

/ ˈlɛdəˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. Joshua. 1925–2008, US geneticist, who discovered the phenomenon of transduction in bacteria. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1958 with George Beadle and Edward Tatum

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Lederberg Scientific  

/ lĕd′ər-bûrg′,lā′dər- /

1. American geneticist who made important discoveries concerning the organization of the genetic material of bacteria and developed techniques for the manipulation and combination of genes. For this work he shared with American biochemists George Beadle and Edward Tatum the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Lederberg

But by 1953, the great Joshua Lederberg, then at the University of Wisconsin, had shown that this sort of transformation, relabeled “infective heredity,” is a routine and important process in bacteria.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2018

Even more startling is the story of Esther Lederberg.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2017

Perhaps one of the most egregious is Joshua Lederberg, awarded the in 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research he conducted with his first wife, microbiologist Esther Lederberg.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 6, 2015

“The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on this planet is the virus,” the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Joshua Lederberg once wrote.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2014

There, Cavalli-Sforza and Bill Hayes talked about the experiments by which they and Joshua Lederberg had just established the existence of two discrete bacterial sexes.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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