# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esther-lederberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:49:55.344Z

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name: "Esther Lederberg"
slug: "esther-lederberg"
description: "Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. She discovered the bacterial virus lambda phage and the bacterial fertility factor F, devised the first implementation of replica plating, and furthered the understanding of the transfer of genes between bacteria by specialized transduction."
tagline: "American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)"
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birthDate: "1922-12-18"
deathDate: "2006-11-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump