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Born May 23, 1925 • Montclair • New Jersey
Died February 2, 2008 (aged 82) • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1958)
Subjects Of Study bacteria • recombination • transduction

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Joshua Lederberg in a suit holding a petri dish in one hand and examining another, standing in front of shelves filled with scientific bottles and vials.
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Allan MacLeod Cormack
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Max Theiler
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