Joshua lederberg

Joshua Lederberg (Montclair, New Jersey, May 23, 1925 – New York, February 2, 2008) was an American geneticist.

He graduated at the age of 19 from Columbia College in New York. He studied medicine at Columbia University in New York. He did his doctorate at Yale University. He obtained his doctorate in 1948. Later he transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Professor of Genetics, where he went on to obtain the chair of that specialty. He later became director of the Department of Genetics at Stanford University and director of the Kennedy Laboratories for Molecular Biology.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958, shared with George W. Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum, an award he won thanks to the discoveries he made together with his wife Esther Lederberg. However, only he was awarded the prize.