Nobel Prize-quality work
(not awarded due to gender discrimination)
Esther Lederberg was never accorded recognition for all
the research that she did:
Implementation of Replica Plating
Discovery of Bacteriophage lambda
Discovery of specialized transduction with lambda
Discovery of Fertility factor F (the first discovered episome)
Galactosemia transduction research with M. Laurance Morse
Participation in the discovery of specialized transduction (with M. Laurance Morse and others)
Maltophilia transduction research with Enrico Calef et al.
Founding and direction of the Plasmid Reference Center
Consultant, Plasmid Nomenclature Committee
For detailed information about Esther M. Lederberg's achievements,
click here.
The problems that Esther M. Lederberg had to surmount during the course
of her career included attempted falsification of the historical record,
misrepresentation, and theft of correspondence and other documentation,
supported by gender discrimination. It is rare that one can obtain
documentary evidence of deliberate misappropriation of property;
to see the evidece of Josh Lederbergs act,
click here; to see over 200 letters and
papers misappropriated by Joshua Lederberg and displayed on his
NLM website,
click here.
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