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Rockefeller University Hospital. Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City.
Oswald Avery (born October 21, 1877, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada—died February 20, 1955, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist whose research helped ascertain that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity, thus laying the foundation for the new science of molecular genetics.
Biographical Overview. "Dr. Avery was a true scientist with an insatiable curiosity and a powerful and unremitting urge to discover the innermost mechanisms of the biological facts that came under his observations." Alphonse R. Dochez. Oswald Theodore Avery was born on 21 October 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the second of three sons of ...
Apr 23, 2013 · 1944: DNA is "Transforming Principle". Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty showed that DNA (not proteins) can transform the properties of cells, clarifying the chemical nature of genes. Avery, MacLeod and McCarty identified DNA as the "transforming principle" while studying Streptococcus pneumoniae, bacteria that can cause pneumonia.
Jan 20, 2014 · Summary. Seventy years ago, Oswald Avery and his colleagues from the Rockefeller Institute published the first evidence that genes are made of DNA. Their discovery was received with a mixture of enthusiasm, suspicion and perplexity.
At the same time that Griffith was conducting his experiments, researcher Oswald Avery and his colleagues at the Rockefeller University in New York were performing detailed analyses of the...
PMID: 15202433. DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.21.1.135. Abstract. In 1944, two Canadians, Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, and an American, MacLyn McCarty, published a paper in The Journal of Experimental Medicine that demonstrated genes to be the chemical, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
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