A hidden legacy : the life and work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg / Thomas E. Schindler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schindler, Thomas E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacterial genetics--History.

Bacterial genetics.

Lederberg, Esther Zimmer, 1922-2006.

Lederberg, Esther Zimmer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A Hidden Legacy reveals previously unknown insights into the remarkable contributions Esther Zimmer Lederberg made to molecular biology and takes readers through her instrumental role in the discovery of bacterial genetics.

Contents:

cover

Half title

A Hidden Legacy

Copyright

Contents

Introduction: An Experimental Genius

1. An Abiding Affection

2. The Pathway to Bacterial Genetics

3. Graduate School: Mentored by the Future Nobel Laureates George Beadle and Edward Tatum

4. The Anomaly of Bacterial Genetics

5. Love in the Laboratory: A Marriage of Two Prodigies

6. Strange Genetics: Bacterial Genes Move Sideways

7. Clarifying the Unique Features of Bacterial Sex

8. Replica Plating: Esther Repurposes Her Compact Makeup Sponge

9. The Matilda Effect: Joshua Lederberg's Brilliance Obscured His Wife's Reputation

10. What She Did for Love: Demoted from Research Collaborator to Nobel Wife

11. Behind the Laboratory Doors: For Over One Hundred Years of Science, Women Participated in Obscurity

12. Antibiotic Resistance, the Horrendous Consequences of Bacterial Sex

13. The Lederbergs' Stanford Years, 1959-​1976: Growing Apart, the Collaborative Couple Divorce

14. The Central Importance of E. coli and λ Phage in the New Molecular Biology

15. Making Music and a New Life

Epilogue: A New Tree of Life and a New Concept for the Gene

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753169-5

0-19-753170-9

0-19-753168-7

OCLC:

1242022208