Great Women of Science: Dr. Esther Lederberg –The Forgotten Heroine of Genetic Discovery
Joshua Lederberg is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history of biology. And yet her work is critical to the practice of cutting-edge medicine and serves as a scaffold for modern genetic discoveries.
By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer
https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/11/28/great-women-science-dr-esther-lederberg-forgotten-heroine-genetic-discovery-49845
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