WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Joshua Lederberg, whose work helped lay the ground for genetic engineering and biotechnology, died of pneumonia last Saturday, Rockefeller University said. He was 82.
Lederberg, a geneticist and microbiologist considered one of the most eminent and influential scientists of the 20th century, won the Nobel prize in 1958 at the age of 33 for his work in bacterial genetics.
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