Dr. Norton David Zinder (born 1928)

Dr. Joshua Lederberg (born 1925) - ( Dr. Zinder was a notable student of Dr. Joshua Lederberg - [HK005O][GDrive] - "[Dr. Joshua Lederberg (born 1925)] and [Dr. Norton David Zinder (born 1928)] showed in 1951 that genetic material could be transferred from one strain of the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium to another using viral material as an intermediary step. This process is called transduction. " )
Dr. George Pieczenik (born 1944)

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Norton Zinder

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Norton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012)^[1] was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death.

In 1966 he was awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences.^[2]

Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg,^[3][4][5] Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage^[6] can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Later, Zinder discovered the first bacteriophage that contained RNA as its genetic material. At that time, Harvey Lodish (now of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research) worked in his lab.^[7]

Norton Zinder died in 2012 of pneumonia after a long illness.^[8]

^ Lodish, H.; Fedoroff, N. (2012). "Norton Zinder (1928-2012)". Science. 335 (6074): 1316. Bibcode:2012Sci...335.1316L. doi:10.1126/science.1220682. PMID 22422973.
^ "NAS Award in Molecular Biology". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
^ Lederberg, J.; Zinder, N. (1948). "Concentration of biochemical mutants of bacteria with penicillin". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 70 (12): 4267–4268. doi:10.1021/ja01192a521. PMID 18105993.
^ Lederberg, J.; Lederberg, E. M.; Zinder, N. D.; Lively, E. R. (1951). "Recombination analysis of bacterial heredity". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 16: 413–443. doi:10.1101/sqb.1951.016.01.030. PMID 14942753.
^ Zinder, N. D.; Lederberg, J. (1952). "Genetic Exchange in Salmonella". Journal of Bacteriology. 64 (5): 679–699. doi:10.1128/JB.64.5.679-699.1952. PMC 169409. PMID 12999698.
^ Kresge, N.; Simoni, R. D.; Hill, R. L. (2011). "The Molecular Genetics of Bacteriophage: The Work of Norton Zinder". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286 (25): e4–e5. doi:10.1074/jbc.o111.000244. PMC 3121416. PMID 21830328.
^ Lodish, H. F.; Zinder, N. D. (1966). "Replication of the RNA of Bacteriophage f2". Science. 152 (3720): 372–377. Bibcode:1966Sci...152..372L. doi:10.1126/science.152.3720.372. PMID 17775172.
^ Nicolas Wade: Norton D. Zinder, Researcher in Molecular Biology, Dies at 83. In: The New York Times. February 7, 2012.