Esther Lederberg

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. Notable contributions include the discovery of the bacterial virus , the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction, the development of replica plating, and the discovery of the bacterial fertility factor F.

Esther Miriam Zimmer was the first of two children born in the Bronx, New York, to David Zimmer and Pauline Geller Zimmer. Her brother, Benjamin Zimmer, followed in 1923. A child of the Great Depression, her lunch was often a piece of bread topped by the juice of a squeezed tomato.

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