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Norton Zinder (Norton David Zinder) was born on 7 November, 1928 in New York City, New York, is an American microbiologist. Discover Norton Zinder's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 7 November 1928
Birthday 7 November
Birthplace New York City, New York
Date of death 3 February, 2012
Died Place New York City, New York
Nationality United States

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1928

Norton David Zinder (November 7, 1928 – February 3, 2012) was an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction.

1947

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 Sciences in 1969.

He led a lab at Rockefeller University until shortly before his death.

1966

In 1966 he was awarded the NAS Award in Molecular Biology from the National Academy of Sciences.

Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that a bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another.

Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella.

Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Later, Zinder discovered the first bacteriophage that contained RNA as its genetic material.

At that time, Harvey Lodish (now of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research) worked in his lab.

2012

Norton Zinder died in 2012 of pneumonia after a long illness.