Joshua Lederberg - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1958
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Joshua Lederberg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1958
for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
5/23/1925
place of birth
Montclair
date of death
2/2/2008
place of death
New York City
Lived
82 years
educated at
  • Yale University
    • academic major: botany
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1948
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Columbia University
  • Stuyvesant High School
member of
  • Association for Computing Machinery
    • start time: 1994
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
employer
  • Stanford University
  • The Rockefeller University
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
doctoral student
  • Ronald Harris-Warrick
  • Norton Zinder
  • M. Laurance Morse
field of work
  • microbiology
  • genetics
occupation
  • zoologist
  • computer scientist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • microbiologist
  • artificial intelligence researcher
  • molecular biologist
  • physician
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