5 Quotes & Sayings By Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg is a 2015 recipient of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Lederberg is a geneticist and molecular biologist who has made seminal contributions to understanding gene expression, recombination, and DNA repair. He is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969) and was one of the first scientists to discover that DNA can cut and paste itself during recombination. In 1977 he shared a Nobel Prize for his work on genetic recombination Read more

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1969, was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, and received honorary degrees from thirty-four colleges and universities.

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I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people. Joshua Lederberg
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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. Joshua Lederberg
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. Joshua Lederberg
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I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. Joshua Lederberg