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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...
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    in a male-dominated field and the wife of Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg, Esther Lederberg struggled for professional recognition. Despite her foundational...
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    individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Tatum was an elected member of the United States National Academy...
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  • Legacies of Joshua Lederberg". Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation: A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg: Workshop Summary...
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  • and a pioneer of bacterial genetics Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008), American molecular biologist Victoria Lederberg (1937-2002), American judge, Justice...
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  • done at Stanford University by Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce G. Buchanan, Joshua Lederberg, and Carl Djerassi, along with a team of highly creative research associates...
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    debates gained exposure in 1975 at the Asilomar Conference, where Joshua Lederberg was the most outspoken supporter for this emerging field in biotechnology...
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    The first experimental evidence came in 1958, when Gustav Nossal and Joshua Lederberg showed that one B cell always produces only one antibody. The idea...
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    Rhoads. Others attained eminence before being drawn to the university. Joshua Lederberg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958, served...
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    characteristics. The method of replica plating implemented by Joshua Lederberg and Esther Lederberg included auxotrophs that were temperature-sensitive; that...
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    described by Esther Lederberg and Joshua Lederberg in 1952.One of the nutrient agar plate will have antibiotic ressistance. Lederberg sought to use a fabric...
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    In 1958, Joshua Lederberg shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Beadle and Edward Tatum. Microbiologists Joshua Lederberg and his...
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  • Stuyvesant High School. Four Nobel laureates are Stuyvesant alumni: Joshua Lederberg (1941) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1958 Robert Fogel (1944) –...
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    cells). Transduction was discovered in Salmonella by Norton Zinder and Joshua Lederberg at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1952. Transduction happens...
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  • print, despite the book being written after his death. Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg was convinced that "Jeremy Stone" was modeled strongly after himself...
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    substantial blending of the parental genomes. The process was discovered by Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum in 1946. Conjugation diagram Donor cell produces pilus...
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    Morse, Stephen S. "Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008)", Science (magazine), March 7, 2008, vol 319, p. 1351. Broad, William J. "Joshua Lederberg, 82, a Nobel Winner...
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  • this theory following 15 years of work by them and others (including Joshua Lederberg), partially as an explanation for Monod's observation of diauxie. Previously...
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  • Award for Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve Joshua Lederberg (1941) – 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Peter Lax (1943)...
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  • threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. — Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D., Nobel laureate, Film introduction: Outbreak (1995) In 1967...
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    (strain W1485 Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine by UV by Joshua Lederberg and colleagues) and then in 1985 of the F plasmid by acridine orange...
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    science in the United States through the life of Joshua Lederberg, an influential scientist. Lederberg his collaborators founded the field of bacterial...
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    Mendel's work decades before the rise of genetics. Others, such as Joshua Lederberg and Leslie C. Dunn, attest to its early significance and cite the experiment...
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    President of Rockefeller University In office 1990–1991 Preceded by Joshua Lederberg Succeeded by Torsten Wiesel Personal details Born (1938-03-07) March...
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  • minorities, earning him recognition as the "dean of black dermatology" Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008), geneticist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    quantum field theory; one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century Joshua Lederberg, biologist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
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  • processing (NLP) for many years. Dendral program (Edward Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg, Bruce Buchanan, Georgia Sutherland at Stanford University) demonstrated...
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    George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald A. Glaser / Joshua Lederberg / Willard Libby / Linus Pauling / Edward Purcell / Isidor Rabi / Emilio...
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    from the original on February 24, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2018. "Joshua Lederberg – Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on...
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    smallest such graph possible. It was discovered in the mid-1960s by Joshua Lederberg, David Barnette, and Juraj Bosák, after whom it is named. It has 38...
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