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Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg, American biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)

Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes. He shared the prize with Edward Tatum and George Beadle, who won for their work with genetics.

23 May 1925

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