Video 16: Joshua Lederberg, clip 1

Joshua Lederberg is a Professor Emeritus at the Rockefeller University. He was a graduate student of Ed Tatum.

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The attributes of great scientists.

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

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

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16405. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1999

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

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

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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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Relating how Avery was a successful orator while an undergraduate at Colgate University, and his subsequent disdain for public speaking as a scientist.

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16396. Gallery 18: Joshua Lederberg, 1925

Joshua Lederberg's baby picture.

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