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Joshua Lederberg  

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  • Joshua Lederberg is an American molecular biologist who obtained a share of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Lawrie Tatum and George Wells Beadle for his research on the genetic structure and function of microorganisms. Together with genetics, Lederberg's other main field of research is artificial intelligence. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Lederberg, Joshua (1925–)]

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