Updated at December 3, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Joshua Lederberg |
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Birthdate | May 23, 1925 |
Birth Place | New Jersey |
Age (in 2024) | 99 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Biologist |
Joshua Lederberg is best known as Biologist who has born on May 23, 1925 in New Jersey. Currently, Joshua Lederberg is 99 years, 6 months and 11 days old. Joshua Lederberg will celebrate 100th birthday on Friday, 23rd of May 2025. Below the countdown to Joshua Lederberg upcoming birthday.
American molecular biologist who was only 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He later worked for NASA on a team that looked for life on Mars.
He studied under his co-winner of the Nobel Prize, Edward L. Tatum at Yale University, and published with him a paper in 1946 showing the E. Coli bacterial can interbreed.
His discovery that bacteria can mate and exchange genes allowed scientists to use bacteria in genetic research, eventually leading to studies of DNA recombination.
He grew up in Montclair, New Jersey.
He teamed up with the popular science author Carl Sagan to promote research into biology.
Joshua Lederberg is 99 years old today.
Joshua Lederberg was born on May 23, 1925 in New Jersey.
Joshua Lederberg zodiac sign is Gemini.
Joshua Lederberg was best known as Biologist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Joshua Lederberg's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1992 | Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards are killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. His friend and colleague Paolo Borsellino will be assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a turning point in the history of Italian Mafia prosecutions. |
1995 | The first version of the Java programming language is released. |
1998 | The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes. |
2002 | The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland. |
2006 | Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts. |
2008 | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca (Pulau Batu Puteh) to Singapore, ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the two countries. |
2013 | A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington. |
2014 | Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara. |
2015 | At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma. |
2016 | Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen. |
2016 | Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people are killed and at least 200 people injured. |
2017 | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares martial law in Mindanao, following the Maute's attack in Marawi. |
2021 | A cable car falls from a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, killing 14 people. |
2021 | Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain dissident journalist Roman Protasevich. |
2022 | Anthony Albanese of the Australian Labor Party is sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia after winning the 2022 Australian federal election, ending 9 years of conservative rule. |
1991 | The birth of Lena Meyer-Landrut, German singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of César Pinares, Chilean footballer |
1996 | The birth of Katharina Althaus, German ski jumper |
1996 | The birth of Emmanuel Boateng, Ghanaian footballer |
1996 | The birth of Razvan Marin, Romanian footballer |
1997 | The birth of Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Coy Craft, American footballer |
1997 | The birth of Joe Gomez, English footballer |
1997 | The birth of Gustaf Nilsson, Swedish footballer |
1997 | The birth of Sam Timmins, New Zealand basketball player |
1998 | The birth of Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian racing driver |
1998 | The birth of Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter |
1999 | The birth of James Charles, American internet personality |
1999 | The birth of Trinidad Cardona, American singer and songwriter |
2000 | The birth of Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian-Italian racing driver |
2012 | The death of Paul Fussell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Epy Guerrero, Dominican baseball player, coach, and scout (b. 1942) |
2013 | The death of Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, Turkish police officer and politician, 15th Governor of Istanbul Province (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934) |
2013 | The death of Flynn Robinson, American basketball player (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, Russian linguist and academic (b. 1949) |
2014 | The death of Madhav Mantri, Indian cricketer (b. 1921) |
2015 | The death of Anne Meara, American actress, comedian and playwright (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Aleksey Mozgovoy, Ukrainian sergeant (b. 1975) |
2015 | The death of Alicia Nash, Salvadoran-American physicist and engineer (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of John Forbes Nash, Jr., American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928) |
2017 | The death of Roger Moore, English actor (b. 1927) |
2020 | The death of Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1997) |
2021 | The death of Ron Hill, English long-distance runner (b. 1938) |
2021 | The death of Eric Carle, American children's book designer, illustrator, and writer best known for The Very Hungry Caterpillar (b. 1929) |
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