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. . DR. JUDAH CAHN, Rabbi
Friday Evening, ’
March 16, 1979 NORMAN ATKINS, Cantor
8:00 P.M. MAURICE LEVINE, Conductor

ARTHUR FRANTZ, Organist
SERVICE #4
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Organ Prelude
Ma Tovu Ernest Bloch
Bar'chu I. Freed
Sh'ma
Mi Chamocha I. Freed
V'shamru I. Freed
Hashkivenu A. W. Binder
May The Words I. Freed
Kiddush Trad. arr.
Lewandowski-Binder
SERMON
DR. JOSHUA LEDERBERG
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
ALBERT EINSTEIN,
ON THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
Solo:
Kinnereth Mare Lavry

Marjorie McClung, soprano
Va' anachnu
On That Day

Final Hymn
Shalom Aleychem

I. Freed
I. Freed

Trad. arr.
I. Goldfarb
About Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg, Joseph D. Grant
Professor of Genetics and chairman of
the department of genetics at the Stan-
ford University School of Medicine,
was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in
1925. He attended Stuyvesant High
School in New York and received his
B.A. degree from Columbia College in
1944,

After two years at Columbia Univer-
sity’s College of Physicians and Sur-
geons, he took a leave of absence to do
research with the late Edward L. Tatum
at Yale University. He never returned

to medical school. While at Yale, where.

he received his Ph.D. in 1947, he dis-
covered the mechanism of genetic re-
combination in bacteria, demonstrating
for the first time that a form of sexual
reproduction occurs in these micro-
organisms.

Eleven years later in 1958, at the age
of 33, he was named a co-recipient of
the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi-
cine for this work and subsequent re-
search on the organization of genetic
material in bacteria. The other recipi-
ents of the prize that year were Dr.
Tatum and Dr. George Beadle for their
discovery at Stanford in the 1940s that
genes act by regulating specificchemical
processes. (In 1957, Dr. Tatum joined
the faculty of The Rockefeller Univer-
Sity, where basic research in genetics
and what is now called molecular biol-
ogy had been in progress since the
1930s. He was a leader in research at the
University until his death in 1975.)

From 1947 to 1959, Dr. Lederberg
was professor of genetics at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin and served two years
(1957-59) as chairman of the depart-
ment of medical genetics. He has been
on the faculty of Stanford’s School of
Medicine since 1959. He also holds the
titles of professor of biology and pro-
fessor of computer science.

A member of the National Academy
of Sciences and a charter member of its
Institute of Medicine, Dr. Lederberg
has been active on several government
advisory committees and boards deal-
ing with problems of mental health and
retardation. He also was a member of

the Advisory Committee for Medical
Research of the World Health Organi-
zation, and is on the board of trustees
of the Natural Resources . Defense
Council, which is concerned with en-
vironmental health.

Dr. Lederberg played an active role
in the Mariner and Viking missions to
Mars, sponsored by the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration. He
has been a consultant to the Arms Con-
trol and Disarmament Agency and con-
tributed to the successful negotiation of
the treaty on biological weapons dis-
armament. He is a director of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Be-
havioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
and of the Institute for Scientific Infor-
mation in Philadelphia. He is also
chairman of the board of Annual Re-
views of Palo Alto, California, a coop-
erative nonprofit scientific publisher.

Dr. Lederberg has been awarded
honorary Doctor of Science degrees by
Yale, Columbia, the University of Wis-
consin, and Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, and an honorary M.D. by
the University of Turin, Italy.

His interest in improving communi-
cations among scientists, the general
public, and government policy makers
has led Dr. Lederberg to write for lay
audiences extensively, including a
series of columns distributed by the
Washington Post Syndicate on the
social impact of scientific programs.