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A Hidden Legacy - The Life and Work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg (Hardcover)
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A Hidden Legacy - The Life and Work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg (Hardcover)
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It's time to honor the significant scientific contributions of
Esther Zimmer Lederberg. In A Hidden Legacy, Thomas E. Schindler
shares the story of this remarkable microbiologist and offers
insight into why her legacy has been obscured for so long. In the
mid-20th century, microbiologist Esther Zimmer Lederberg and her
then-husband, Joshua Lederberg, made a series of remarkable
discoveries that contributed to the biochemical understanding of
the gene. Together, they laid the foundation for molecular biology
and the field of bacterial genetics. In 1958, he alone was awarded
the Nobel Prize for their work. Esther's ingenuity was largely
ignored and undervalued by the Nobel committee and has continued to
be obscured by historians of science. In this book, Thomas E.
Schindler shares many of Esther's hidden scientific contributions
and her role in the discoveries that launched her then-husband's
celebrated career. A Hidden Legacy delves into how, as a couple,
the Lederbergs established a new field of bacterial genetics in the
decade leading up to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Their
impressive series of achievements includes the discovery of:
bacteriophage and the first plasmid, known as the F-factor; how
viruses carry bacterial genes between bacteria; and fundamental
properties of bacterial sex. Schindler explains how Esther's
research revealed unique features of bacterial sex that are now
essential to our understanding of molecular biology and evolution.
A magnificent story of a remarkable scientist, A Hidden Legacy
takes readers through the process that scrambled the tree of life
and offers insight into the role Esther played in uncovering these
secretes of bacterial and viral genes.
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