Notable Biologists Posters and Prints, “L...-”
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Joshua Lederberg
b. 5-23-1925; Montclair, NJ
d. 2-2-2008; NYC

Joshua Lederberg is a molecular biologist awarded half the 1958 Nobel Prize “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria”. (George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum each was awarded one quarter of the 1958 Prize.)

Lederberg is also known for his work exobiology, an interdisciplinary study of life in space, incompassing astronomy, biology and geology.

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch tradesman and scientist, is considered the “Father of Microbiology”.
b. 10-24-1632; The Netherlands
d. 8-30-1723

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Edward B. Lewis
b. 5-20-1918; Pennsylvania
d. 7-21-2004

Edward B. Lewis was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development” with Christiane Musslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus.

• Genes, Development and Cancer: The Life and Work of Edward B. Lewis

Fritz Lipmann
b. 6-12-1899; Germany
d. 7-24-1986

Lipmann was a biochemist who shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism”. The 1953 Prize was shared with Hans Adolf Krebs (Krebs cycle).

• Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 2

Salvador Edward Luria
b. 8-13-1912; Italy
d. 2-6-1991; Lexington, MA

Salvador Luria was a microbiologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1969 with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey “for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses”.

• Life, The Unfinished Experiment by Salvador Luria

Andre Lwoff
b. 5-8-1902; France
b. 9-30-1994;

Microbiologist Andre Lwoff shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jacques-Lucien Monad and Francois Jacob “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis”.

Feodor Lynen
b. 4-6-1911; Germany
d. 8-6-1979; Munich

Biochemist Feodor Lynen shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 with Konrad Bloch “for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.”