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Esther Lederberg

Esther Lederberg
Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (d. 2006)

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. She discovered the bacterial virus lambda phage and the bacterial fertility factor F, devised the first implementation of replica plating, and furthered the understanding of the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction.

18 December 1922

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