Word: lederberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DAVID ROCKEFELLER, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank: John McCloy [lawyer and banker] and Henry Kissinger for their leadership in world affairs; Andrew Wyeth for his leadership in bringing the arts to a wider public; Rockefeller University President and Nobel Winner Joshua Lederberg for his leadership in the scientific community; General Electric's Reginald Jones for his business leadership; and Patrick Haggerty [general director of Texas Instruments] for his business leadership and his role in helping maintain America's technological leadership...
...life on Mars. Shots of Fletcher's "eye"- or a scraggly plant or an obvious fossil- would provide instant and sensational evidence that might forever change man's view of himself, his world and the universe. In fact, Sagan and Stanford University Geneticist Joshua Lederberg have suggested that large organisms could have evolved in the cold and arid environment of Mars. Because a big animal has less surface area in relation to its volume than a smaller one, and because it is from an animal's surface that heat and moisture are lost, explains Sagan, "organisms with...
...committee of scientists assessing the National Cancer Institute's virus research, Zinder helped draft a report that prompted a major reorganization of the program. A native of New York City, he went from Columbia to graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he and Nobelist Joshua Lederberg co-discovered transduction-the process by which a virus deserts its home cell and invades a new one, often altering the new cell's genetic profile. Zinder, an associate editor of Virology, researches and teaches graduate students at New York's Rockefeller University...
...cultural deprivation of blacks and the cultural bias of I.Q. tests. Because Herrnstein accepts Jensen's ideas about heredity and intelligence, as well as Jensen's contention that compensatory education has failed, he is likely to be criticized by some scientists who, like Nobel Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, have already labeled Jensen's findings "premature" and "inconclusive...
...RING IS ONE among many, both scientists and ethicists, who find it considerably harder to justify "positive" genetic engineering, restructuring the genes to make the "perfect" man. The prospect suggests apocalyptic possibilities: M.I.T. Biologist Salvador Luria approaches it "with tremendous fear of its potential dangers." Biologist Joshua Lederberg of Stanford University disowns such Utopian aims as a proper goal for serious biology, and even doubts that techniques sophisticated enough to achieve them could be perfected in the near future. But the possibility nonetheless tantalizes: Who would decide what qualities to preserve, and by what standards? Even remedial genetic engineering could...