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Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22, 1997) was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.
May 22, 1997 · Alfred Hershey was a geneticist who discovered that DNA is the genetic material of bacteria. He was born in Michigan in 1908 and died in 1997. Learn more about his life, work and achievements on NobelPrize.org.
May 18, 2024 · A.D. Hershey (born Dec. 4, 1908, Owosso, Mich., U.S.—died May 22, 1997, Syosset, N.Y.) was an American biologist who, along with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969.
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May 22, 1997 · Alfred D. Hershey. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969. Born: 4 December 1908, Owosso, MI, USA. Died: 22 May 1997, Syosset, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Carnegie Institution of Washington, Long Island, New York, NY, USA.
Alfred D. Hershey was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Max Delbrück and Salvador E. Luria (AAI '58) for "their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."
May 11, 2018 · By seeking to understand the reproduction of viruses, the simplest form of life, Alfred Day Hershey made important discoveries about the nature of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and laid the groundwork for modern molecular genetics.
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Learn about the life and work of Alfred D. Hershey, a Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of DNA as the genetic material. Explore his personal and professional papers, publications, awards, and photographs at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives.
