Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg's Death

Born (Birthday) May 23, 1925

Death Date February 2, 2008

Age of Death 82 years

Cause of Death Pneumonia

Place of Death NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Profession Biologist

The biologist Joshua Lederberg died at the age of 82. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American molecular biologist who was only 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He later worked for NASA on a team that looked for life on Mars.

He studied under his co-winner of the Nobel Prize, Edward L. Tatum at Yale University, and published with him a paper in 1946 showing the E. Coli bacterial can interbreed.

His discovery that bacteria can mate and exchange genes allowed scientists to use bacteria in genetic research, eventually leading to studies of DNA recombination.

How did Joshua Lederberg die?

Joshua Lederberg, PhD, winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for his discovery of how bacteria transfer genes, died on Feb. 2 of pneumonia. He was 82.

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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."

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"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

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"I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook."

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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."

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"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."

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