Video 18: Joshua Lederberg, clip 5

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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16415. Video 18: Joshua Lederberg, clip 4

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

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16412. Video 18: Joshua Lederberg, clip 1

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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16413. Video 18: Joshua Lederberg, clip 2

Designing the experiments that uncovered bacterial conjugation: theory-driven versus data-driven experiments.

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16370. Video 16: Joshua Lederberg, clip 1

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

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16405. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1999

Joshua Lederberg in his office at the Rockefeller Institute, 1999.

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16009. Joshua Lederberg, 1945

Bacteria and viruses have DNA too.

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16399. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1958

Lederberg at work in lab at the University of Wisconsin, 1958.

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16396. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1925

Joshua Lederberg's baby picture.

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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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