Oswald Avery
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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. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.[4][5][6]
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Born | (1877-10-21)October 21, 1877 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[2] |
Died | February 20, 1955(1955-02-20) (aged 77) |
Nationality | Canadian-American |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
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Fields | Molecular biology[3] |
Institutions | Rockefeller University Hospital |
The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work,[7] though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.[8][9]
The lunar crater Avery was named in his honor.