JOSHUA LEDERBERG

Joshua Lederberg (b. 1925) is University Professor Emeritus and Sackler Foundation Scholar at The Rockefeller University in New York City. He got his B.A. degree from Columbia College in 1944 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1947. He was Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin (1947–1959) and Professor of Genetics and also of Biology and Computer Science at Stanford University (1959–1978). He was President of The Rockefeller University between 1978–1990. Dr. Lederberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.” (The other half of the Nobel Prize was shared by George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.”)…