College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Geneticist Joshua Lederberg was the first University of Wisconsin faculty member to receive the Nobel Prize. His discovery of conjugation in bacterial cells was a milestone in biology and ushered in the new field of bacterial genetics. Soon, the genetics of the bacterium Escherichia coli became better understood than the genetics of all other organisms. Lederberg also discovered, with graduate student Norton Zinder, that a virus can carry genes from one bacterium to another through a prcoess called "transduction." A man of wide knowledge and many scholarly interests, Lederberg later became president of Rockefeller University.| HM Number | HM12NK |
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| Series | This marker is part of the University of Wisconsin series |
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| Year Placed | 2001 |
| Placed By | The UW Foundation |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, September 21st, 2014 at 5:05pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16T E 303754 N 4771885 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 43.07430000, -89.41053333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 43° 4.458', W 89° 24.632' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 43° 4' 27.48" N, 89° 24' 37.92" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 608 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 446-476 Henry Mall, Madison WI 53706, US |
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