The Joshua Lederberg Papers
- Title:
- Interview with Joshua Lederberg [Early interest in science]
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- Running Time:
- 1 minute, 35 seconds
- Date:
- 1996-03-22 (March 22, 1996)
- Creator:
- Lederberg, Joshua
- Contributor:
- Hyde, Barbara
- Source:
- Joshua Lederberg interview. VHS Tape 1. Beta SP timecodes 01:05:25:00 - 01:07:00:00
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the American Society for Microbiology.
- Exhibit Category:
- Biographical Information
- Relation:
- Lederberg Grouping: No Epoch
[Transcript of Lederberg oral history videotaped by Barbara Hyde] (March 22, 1996)
- Unique Identifier:
- BBBADC
- Accession Number:
- 7
- Document Type:
- Video recordings
- Interviews
- Language:
- English
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- Series: Audio-Visual
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- Folder: Videotapes
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- Transcript:
- JOSHUA LEDERBERG: You know that's something of a mystery to me. I seem to have been born a scientist as far as I can tell
and who can say whether that's in my genes or not? My father was an Orthodox rabbi, my mother came from a Hasidic rabbinical
family -- certainly issues of learning and quest for truth were paramount in my family background -- but there were no scientists,
no physicians, no academic people anywhere in my family ambience. It may have been a little bit of a generational revolt that
I did strike out in that direction and also being a second generation immigrant -- my father had come to America from Israel
-- but I was the melting pot American, so science was a pathway to mobility. Outside the family, figures like Chaim Weizmann,
who became president of the State of Israel, and was the leading proponent of Zionism before my birth and during my early
childhood but was also a renowned biochemist. And Albert Einstein, now these were folk heroes in our community so they may
have had -- not may have -- they certainly had significant influence in my own career aspirations.
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- 2008-05-08
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