Esther M. Lederberg papers 1906-1998 1937-1998

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Esther M. Lederberg papers 1906-1998 1937-1998

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Collection includes class notes and lab notebooks from her education at Hunter College, 1939-42, Stanford University, 1944-46, and the University of Wisconsin, 1948-50; notes and lab notebooks from subsequent research, primarily with plasmids, 1950 on; records from the Plasmid Reference Center; correspondence; articles and reprints; photographs both professional and personal; family documents; and other materials.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Lederberg, Esther M.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg, PhD, professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, earned her AB at Hunter College in 1942. She then came to Stanford to study genetics, earning her MA in 1946. She earned her PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1950. Among her achievements was the discovery of lambda phage, a virus that infects E. coli bacteria. Esther...

Stanford University. School of Medicine

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Cooper Medical College founded in San Francisco, Calif. by Levi Cooper Lane (1882). He named school for uncle, Elias Samuel Cooper, who had founded first medical school in California, University of the Pacific School of Medicine (1858). University operated medical school until 1865 when competition from Dr. Toland's medical school forced closure of University of Pacific Medical School. Levi Cooper Lane revived school (1870) but Methodist Church, who operated university, severed connection with i...