A hidden legacy : the life and work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg

A hidden legacy : the life and work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg / Thomas E. Schindler.

"Esther Zimmer Lederberg's research revealed the unique features of bacterial sex. In the decade leading up to the discovery of the DNA double helix, she collaborated with her husband, Joshua Lederberg, to establish the new field of bacterial genetics. The impressive series of achievements...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schindler, Thomas E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Lederberg, Esther Zimmer, > 1922-2006.
Women bacteriologists > United States > Biography.
Bacterial genetics > History.
Women in science > United States > History.
Bacterial genetics
Women bacteriologists
Women in science
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • An abiding affection
  • The pathway to bacterial genetics
  • Graduate school : mentored by the future Nobel laureates George Beadle and Edward Tatum
  • The anomaly of bacterial genetics
  • Love in the laboratory : a marriage of two prodigies
  • Strange genetics : bacterial genes move sideways
  • Clarifying the unique features of bacterial sex
  • Replica plating : Esther repurposes her compact makeup sponge
  • The Matilda effect : Joshua Lederberg's brilliance obscured his wife's reputation
  • What she did for love : demoted from research collaborator to Nobel wife
  • Behind laboratory doors. For over one hundred years of science, women participated in obscurity
  • Antibiotic resistance, the horrendous consequences of bacterial sex
  • The Lederbergs' Stanford years : 1959-1976 : growing apart, the collaborative couple divorce
  • The central importance of E. coli and phage in the new molecular biology
  • Making music and a new life
  • Epilogue: A new tree of life and a new concept for the gene.

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