Genes, Germs And Medicine: The Life Of Joshua Lederberg

Genes, Germs and Medicine explores the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of one of the Twentieth Century''s most influential scientists.Joshua Lederberg was a scientific renaissance man. He and his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 33 (the second youngest in history). He helped to lay...