Lederberg

American  

[led-er-burg] / ˈlɛd ərˌbɜrg /

noun

1. Joshua, 1925–2008, U.S. geneticist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1958.

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Lederberg British  

/ ˈlɛdəˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. Joshua. 1925–2008, US geneticist, who discovered the phenomenon of transduction in bacteria. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1958 with George Beadle and Edward Tatum

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Lederberg Scientific  

/ lĕd′ər-bûrg′,lā′dər- /

1. American geneticist who made important discoveries concerning the organization of the genetic material of bacteria and developed techniques for the manipulation and combination of genes. For this work he shared with American biochemists George Beadle and Edward Tatum the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Example Sentences

Esther Lederberg, in particular, invented a now commonly used laboratory technique called Replica plating that led to Joshua Lederberg’s shared Nobel Prize in 1958.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

Esther Lederberg discovered a virus that infects bacteria, and, with her husband, developed a way to transfer bacteria between petri dishes.

From National Geographic • Oct. 6, 2015

“The single biggest threat to man’s continued dominance on this planet is the virus,” the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Joshua Lederberg once wrote.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2014

He invited the scientist, Joshua Lederberg of Rockefeller University, to visit him at his California estate.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2014

There, Cavalli-Sforza and Bill Hayes talked about the experiments by which they and Joshua Lederberg had just established the existence of two discrete bacterial sexes.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson