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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 A.B. from Columbia University in 1947, Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1952, and became a member of the National Academy of ...
16 mar 2012 · Norton Zinder, a founder and leader of the then nascent field of molecular biology half a century ago, passed away on the 3rd of February in the Bronx, New York. He was a Professor at the Rockefeller University, where we were privileged to have been his graduate students and experienced how insightful mentorship and a fertile ...
- Harvey Lodish, Nina Fedoroff
- 2012
17 apr 2024 · Norton David Zinder was an American biologist who discovered the occurrence of genetic transduction—the carrying of hereditary material from one strain of microorganisms to another by a filterable agent such as a bacteriophage, or bacterial virus—in species of the Salmonella bacteria.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 mag 2012 · Norton Zinder. Photo courtesy of The Rockefeller University. Zinder, a superb geneticist (who also embraced biochemistry), died on February 3, 2012, following a long illness. He was 83. Zinder came of age at the dawn of microbial genetics.
In 1966, Norton Zinder and Joshua Lederberg discovered that Salmonella could exchange genes via bacteriophages. They named this phenomenon “genetic transduction.” This discovery set Zinder on a lifelong journey researching bacteriophage.
- Nicole Kresge, Robert D. Simoni, Robert L. Hill
- 2011
Norton Zinder (1928–2012) 131616 MARCH 2012 VOL 335 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org. PERSPECTIVES. Norton Zinder, a founder and leader of the then nascent fi eld of molecular biology half a century ago, passed away on the 3rd of Feb- ruary in the Bronx, New York. He was a Professor at the Rockefeller University, where we were privileged to have ...
8 feb 2012 · Norton D. Zinder, a researcher who helped lay the basis for the new field of molecular biology in the 1950s and ’60s and who played a crucial role in the politics of decoding the human genome,...
