Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg, ForMemRS 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. He shared the prize with Edward Tatum and George Beadle who won for their work with genetics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 May 1925
CountryUnited States of America
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.
I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.
To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.