Video 18: Joshua Lederberg, clip 2

Joshua Lederberg is a Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, where his current research addresses DNA conformation and evolutionary acceleration.

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Expectations on whether the Neurospora experiments would work and what results they might show.

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The Nobel moment: how he was informed that he had won the Nobel prize.

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The attributes of great scientists.

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How his reading of the Avery, McCarty & McLeod paper motivated him to begin research into understanding the chemical nature of the gene.

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16418. Biography 18: Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008)

Joshua Lederberg discovered bacterial recombination and started a new field of research.

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16370. Video 16: Joshua Lederberg, clip 1

Describing Ed Tatum as a scientist, advisor, and friend.

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16009. Joshua Lederberg, 1945

Bacteria and viruses have DNA too.

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16396. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1925

Joshua Lederberg's baby picture.

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16395. Animation18: Bacteria and viruses have DNA too.

Joshua Lederberg worked with bacterial genetics while Alfred Hershey showed that DNA is responsible for the reproduction of new viruses in a cell.

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16397. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1941

Joshua Lederberg using a microtome to cut tissue sections, 1941.

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