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Led⋅er⋅berg

  [led-er-burg]
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Joshua, born 1925, U.S. geneticist: Nobel prize for medicine 1958.
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Led·er·berg   (lěd'ər-bûrg', lā'dər-)   
American geneticist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for work on bacterial genetics, especially the processes of conjugation and transduction.
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Lederberg Led·er·berg (lěd'ər-bûrg', lā'dər-), Joshua. Born 1925.

American geneticist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for work with genetic mechanisms.

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Lederberg   (lěd'ər-bûrg', lā'dər-)  Pronunciation Key 
American geneticist who made important discoveries concerning the organization of the genetic material of bacteria and developed techniques for the manipulation and combination of genes. For this work he shared with American biochemists George Beadle and Edward Tatum the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
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