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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Example Sentences

Dr. Lederberg then talked the topic up to officials at the National Academy of Sciences and NASA, calling it not astrobiology but exobiology.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2020

Lederberg and her husband, Joshua, were both microbiologists who made foundational advances in the field.

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

As soon as he had finished his unassuming report, however, everyone in the audience knew that a bombshell had exploded in the world of Joshua Lederberg.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson