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Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program.
Since 1962, he has been Director of the Kennedy Laboratories for Molecular Medicine. Lederberg was Visiting Professor of Bacteriology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1950; and Fulbright Visiting Professor of Bacteriology at Melbourne University, Australia, in 1957.
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.
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 Stuyvesant High...
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...
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.
Between 1947 and the mid-1950s, Joshua Lederberg and his collaborators in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin described a steady stream of important experimental techniques and results which transformed the science of bacterial genetics and helped define the classical era of molecular biology.
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.
