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Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA."
Jun 5, 2024 · Maclyn McCarty (born June 9, 1911, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.—died January 2, 2005, New York, New York) was an American biologist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin M. MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that the genetic material of living cells is composed of deoxyribonucleic acid .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 6, 2005 · Dr. Maclyn McCarty, the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940's and became the first to demonstratethat genes were made of...
Jan 26, 2005 · Maclyn McCarty, physician and microbiologist, died of congestive heart failure in New York City on 2 January. He was the last survivor of the three-man team that demonstrated...
- Richard M. Krause
- 2005
Jun 6, 2005 · Maclyn McCarty, or “Mac,” as he was better known, was perhaps most recognized for his part in the discovery of DNA as the carrier of genetic information. But McCarty's scientific career was long and fruitful, and his contributions to science were vast.
- Emil C. Gotschlich, Vincent A. Fischetti
- 2005
Jan 8, 2005 · Maclyn McCarty, the last surviving member of the trio of researchers who defied conventional wisdom by proving that our genetic blueprint is encoded in deoxyribonucleic acid -- DNA -- has died....
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At the Rockefeller, McCarty worked with Avery to perfect the purification of the Pneumococcus transforming factor, and they were the first to precipitate DNA from bacteria. They used enzymes to degrade different classes of molecules and proved that DNA was the transforming factor.
