ZINDER, Norton David (1928 – 2012)

LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008) ZINDER, Norton David (1928 – 2012)

Description of a new mechanism (“transduction”) for the transfer of genetic characters from one bacterial strain to another.

LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008) ZINDER, Norton David (1928 – 2012)

Working as a graduate student with Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named thi…