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Dr. Joshua Lederberg, one of three American scientists to share the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology, will speak at 4:30 this afternoon on "Genes and Antibodies: Genetic Models of Immunity and Differentiation," in Auditorium D at the Medical School.
Regarded as one of the world's leading young geneticists, Lederberg is noted for his outstanding discoveries in bacterial genetics, including the finding of sexual multiplication in bacteria.
In 1947, he showed that at least one form of bacteria is capable of sexual reproduction and in 1948 demonstrated that the heredity of bacteria could be altered.
This year, Dr. Lederberg, along with Drs. George Wells Beadle and E. L. Tatum was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in the heredity of bacteria.
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