Title:

1958 Nobel Prize diploma

Date:

undated

Description:

A photograph of the Nobel diploma awarded to Joshua Lederberg (as well as co-winners Edward L. Tatum and George W. Beadle) as part of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The signatures are that of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, the prize-awarding institution that administers the Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Institute, whose name in Swedish is on the left hand side of the diploma, is Sweden's only university for medicine and is part of the larger Nobel Foundation, which handles the entire Nobel Prize administration.

Location:

Box: 171. Folder: 127

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Nobel Foundation

Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

BBBAAX

NLM ID:

101584906X12237

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X12237

Story Section:

The Development of Bacterial Genetics

Lederberg Grouping:

NONE. No Epoch.