biography
pronunciation:
[layderberg]
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| (1925– )
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| Geneticist, born in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He joined the University of Wisconsin (1947–58), moved to Stanford (1959–78), and then became president of Rockefeller University (1978–90), where he remained as a professor. He shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work as Edward Tatum's graduate student at Yale (1944–7), where he discovered that bacteria can reproduce sexually, and for his subsequent contributions to the science of bacterial genetics. His discovery of transduction in bacterial genes engendered the possibility of genetic engineering. He was a consultant for the US space programme and has written extensively on evolution and the future of humanity. |
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