Microcosm
In 1946, a twenty-year-old medical school student called Joshua Lederberg decided to find out whether microbes make love. Lederberg was motivated not by a displaced libido, but by scientific ambition. At the age of seven, he had declared that he hoped to become ''like Einstein'' and to ''discover a few things in science.''
The ''few things'' Lederberg discovered would revolutionise modern science ...
In 1946, a twenty-year-old medical school student called Joshua Lederberg decided to find out whether microbes make love. Lederberg was motivated not by a displaced libido, but by scientific ambition. At the age of seven, he had declared that he hoped to become ''like Einstein'' and to ''discover a few things in science.''
The ''few things'' Lederberg discovered would revolutionise modern science ...
