[Oral History Program interview with [Joshua Lederberg, 1998] ]

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Lederberg, Joshua, interviewee

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[Family background; Stuyvesant High School; Early interest in science; Columbia College; Francis J. Ryan; Navy V-12 training program; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Early w...

[Family background; Stuyvesant High School; Early interest in science; Columbia College; Francis J. Ryan; Navy V-12 training program; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Early work with neurospora; Work at Yale with Edward L. Tatum; work with George Beadle; Discovery of recombination in bacteria; Cold Spring Harbor Symposium; Challenge by Andre Lwoff and Max Delbruck; Position at UW; Candidates; Interview; Hiring concerns; Job offer; Arrival in Madison; Ira Baldwin; Rudolph Froker; Department of Agricultural Genetics; Jim Crow; Recombination research; Karl Paul Link; Transduction; Norton Zinder; Lambda; Larry Morse; Immunogenetics; Phase variation; Tetsuo Iino; Cell motility; Bruce Stocker; Replica plating; Esther Lederberg; S. G. Bradley; David Skaar; Aleck Bernstein; Bob Wright; Boris Rotman; Tom Nelson; Summer research at Berkeley; Roger Stanier; Protoplasts, L forms and penicillin; Fulbright fellowship in Australia; McFarlane Burnet; Work with NASA; Moon infall; Carl Sagan; James Watson and Bill Hayes; Numerical Analysis Laboratory; Teaching; Department of Medical Genetics; John Z. Bowers; Kimball Atwood; Stanford University; Arthur Kornberg; Nobel Prize; Trip to Sweden; Honorary degree; Reflections on career at UW]

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