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BIOLOGIST

Joshua Lederberg

1925 - 2008

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Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS (May 23, 1925 – February 2, 2008) was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes (bacterial conjugation). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Lederberg has received more than 380,667 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Joshua Lederberg is the 138th most popular biologist (up from 171st in 2019), the 1,368th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,704th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 8.65

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joshua Lederberg ranks 138 out of 841. Before him are Edward B. Lewis, Carl Woese, Elias Magnus Fries, James Bond, Walther Flemming, and Macfarlane Burnet. After him are Hamilton O. Smith, Nettie Stevens, Salvador Luria, Georg Forster, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Charles Bonnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Joshua Lederberg ranks 77. Before him are József Bozsik, Bill Haley, Robert Rauschenberg, Ernest Gellner, Michel de Certeau, and Harry Harrison. After him are Leo Esaki, John DeLorean, Gabriele Amorth, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, José Freire Falcão, and Charles Chaplin Jr.. Among people deceased in 2008, Joshua Lederberg ranks 51. Before him are Tassos Papadopoulos, Robert Rauschenberg, Horst Tappert, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and George Carlin. After him are Dražan Jerković, Janez Drnovšek, Dorothy Vaughan, Youssef Chahine, Henri Cartan, and Isaac Hayes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joshua Lederberg ranks 1,368 out of 18,182. Before him are Jack Elam (1920), John Heard (1946), Anthony Fauci (1940), Ben Gazzara (1930), George Armitage Miller (1920), and Ken Kesey (1935). After him are Iris Apfel (1921), William Fichtner (1956), Percy Spencer (1894), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Bernard Baruch (1870), and Nettie Stevens (1861).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Joshua Lederberg ranks 22. Before him are Sylvia Earle (1935), George Davis Snell (1903), Norman Borlaug (1914), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Carl Woese (1928), and James Bond (1900). After him are Hamilton O. Smith (1931), Nettie Stevens (1861), Gerald Edelman (1929), Daniel Nathans (1928), Robert Whittaker (1920), and J. Michael Bishop (1936).

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