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Jun 23, 2019 · Published: 2019-06-23. In 1951 and 1952, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase conducted a series of experiments at the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, that verified genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
Brief Bio. Alfred Day Hershey was born on December 4, 1908, in Owosso, Michigan. He attended Michigan State College, where he earned his B.S. in 1930 and his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1934. His doctoral dissertation examined the chemical makeup of Brucella, the bacterium responsible for brucellosis.
Hershey, A. D. (Alfred Day), 1908-. During the twentieth century in the United States, Alfred Day Hershey studied phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, and experimentally verified that genes were made of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Genes are molecular, heritable instructions for how an organism develops.
May 24, 1997 · Dr. Alfred D. Hershey, who used a household blender to do experiments that made him a Nobel laureate by proving that DNA is the molecule that carries genetic information, died on Thursday at...
May 11, 2018 · HERSHEY, Alfred Day ( b. 4 December 1908 in Owosso, Michigan; d. 22 May 1997 in Syosset, New York ), Nobel Prize –winning bacteriologist, biochemist, and molecular geneticist whose work with bacteriophages helped prove that DNA is the source of heredity, thus paving the way to an understanding of viral infections.
Jul 10, 1997 · Alfred Hershey (1908-97) One of the founding fathers of molecular biology. John Cairns. Nature 388 , 130 ( 1997) Cite this article. 872 Accesses. 2 Citations. 4 Altmetric. Metrics. The 1940s...
Documenting the personal life and professional activities of 1969 Nobelist Dr. A.D. Hershey, the Alfred Day Hershey Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence; academic publications, honors and awards; and records of research conducted at the Carnegie Institute of Washington at Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
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