Philip Leder
Philip Leder · Science & Medicine
Helped crack the genetic code and pioneered antibody genetics; National Medal of Science (1989)
1934, Washington, D.C., United States — 2020, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States
United States (NIH · Harvard Medical School)
Philip Leder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Helped crack the genetic code and pioneered antibody genetics; National Medal of Science (1989)
Leder, from a Washington Jewish family, worked with Marshall Nirenberg on the Nirenberg–Leder experiments that deciphered which triplets of RNA code for which amino acids, helping crack the genetic code. He later mapped how antibody genes are assembled to generate immune diversity and founded Harvard's genetics department. He received the National Medal of Science in 1989.
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Helped crack the genetic code and pioneered antibody genetics; National Medal of Science (1989)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the US National Medal of Science
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