| Authorised form of name | Lederberg; Joshua (1925 - 2008) |
| Dates | 1925 - 2008 |
| Date of birth | 23/05/1925 |
| Date of death | 02/02/2008 |
| Activity | Career:
Chair of Genetics at Stanford University School of Medicine (from1959-1978); President of the Rockefeller University, New York (1978-1990)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) 1958 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 26/04/1979 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| Source | Sources:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 229-252, plate, by Sir Walter Bodmer FRS and Ann Ganesan
References:
Digitized papers available at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/BB/ |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/109218186 |
| Code | NA4765 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1979/42 | Lederberg, Joshua: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1979 |
| IM/002680 | Lederberg, Joshua | nd |