Microbiologist and pioneer in the field of bacterial genetics. She discovered lambda phage (a virus used to study gene regulation and genetic recombination) and invented the replica plating technique. Esther completed her doctorate in 1950. Her first husband earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with two other men (and yes, she worked on the project with them but was not included in the prize). She remarried at the age of seventy and was survived by her second husband and brother.
Microbiologist and pioneer in the field of bacterial genetics. She discovered lambda phage (a virus used to study gene regulation and genetic recombination) and invented the replica plating technique. Esther completed her doctorate in 1950. Her first husband earned the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with two other men (and yes, she worked on the project with them but was not included in the prize). She remarried at the age of seventy and was survived by her second husband and brother.
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