Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.”

American geneticist. Lederberg was born on May 23, 1925 at Montclair, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in 1944 at Columbia University Ph.D. in 1948 at Yale. Then he served as professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin, then at Stanford School of Medicine, before coming to the Rockefeller in 1978. From 1978 to 1990, he served as president of the Rockefeller University. Lederberg died on February 2, 2008 in New York, USA.