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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joshua_LederbergJoshua Lederberg - Wikipedia

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   Lederberg was born in Montclair, New Jersey, to a Jewish family, son of Esther Goldenbaum Schulman Lederberg and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, in 1925, and moved to Washington Heights, Manhattan as an infant.

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3. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › books › NBK45705The Life and Legacies of Joshua Lederberg - Microbial ...

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   The essays in this chapter offer three personal perspectives on Joshua Lederberg’s many contributions to science, society, scholarship, and to the lives and careers of his colleagues, students, and friends.

   • Published: 2009

4. www.britannica.com › biography › Joshua-LederbergJoshua Lederberg | American Geneticist & Pioneer in Bacterial ...

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   May 19, 2024 · 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.

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   Who was Joshua Lederberg?

   • 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 Saturday. He was 82 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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   Who is Dr Lederberg?

   • "Dr. Lederberg was born May 23, 1925, in Montclair, N.J., to Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, a rabbi, and the former Esther Goldenbaum, who had emigrated from what is now Israel two years earlier. His family moved to the Washington Heights section of Manhattan when he was 6 months old."

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   Why did Joshua Lederberg get a Nobel Prize?

   • In 1958, Joshua Lederberg received the Nobel Prize and moved to Stanford University, where he was the founder and chairman of the Department of Genetics. He collaborated with Frank Macfarlane Burnet to study viral antibodies. With the launching of Sputnik in 1957, Lederberg became concerned about the biological impact of space exploration.

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   Where did Joshua Lederberg go to medical school?

   • Joshua Lederberg began medical studies at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons while continuing to perform experiments.

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6. stanfordmag.org › contents › the-nobel-laureateThe Nobel Laureate | STANFORD magazine

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   Joshua Lederberg was born into a family of religion, but always felt the pull of science. The son of an Orthodox rabbi father and a mother whose family included rabbinical scholars, Lederberg announced at age 7 that he would be “like Einstein.”.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2008/02/05 › usJoshua Lederberg, 82, a Nobel Winner, Dies - The New York Times

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   Feb 5, 2008 · Dr. Lederberg was born May 23, 1925, in Montclair, N.J., to Zvi Hirsch Lederberg, a rabbi, and the former Esther Goldenbaum, who had emigrated from what is now Israel two years earlier. His...

8. med.stanford.edu › news › all-newsGeneticist, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg dies at 82

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   Feb 5, 2008 · Lederberg is survived by his wife Marguerite Stein Lederberg, PhD, his son David Kirsch and his daughter Anne Lederberg, and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held Feb. 5.

9. www.nature.com › articles › 452422aJoshua Lederberg (1925–2008) | Nature

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   Mar 26, 2008 · Lederberg's work was seminal in initiating a new approach to biology based on the genome and its interactions with the environment.