Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1947)
Scientific career
Fields
Molecular biology[1]
Institutions
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. 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]
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.
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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...
for animated short films in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series; the character had been created by Walt Disney. Avery then moved to a new studio, Universal...
Institute's OswaldAvery, America's leading pneumococcal expert, was so troubled by the report that they refused to attempt repetition. When Avery was away...
the Avery laboratory as the "transforming principle" (abbreviated as T. P.) and identified as DNA. America's leading pneumococcal researcher, Oswald T....
pneumococci could transfer information to transform one serotype into another. OswaldAvery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty later showed that the transforming...
demonstration that genes are encoded by DNA in eukaryotes; earlier studies by OswaldAvery and others had shown that this was true for prokaryotes. The name, Acetabularia...
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pneumococci into a mouse along with heat-killed virulent pneumococci. In 1944, OswaldAvery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrated that the transforming...
protein as previously thought, carries genetic information in bacteria. OswaldAvery, Colin Munro MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty used an extract from a strain...
chromosomes, as a candidate genetic molecule. In the 1944 Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, OswaldAvery and his collaborators showed that a heritable phenotypic...
remembered. Avery first began his animation career at the Walter Lantz studio in the early 1930s, working on the majority of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit...
biology. In 1944, OswaldAvery, working at the Rockefeller Institute of New York, demonstrated that genes are made up of DNA (see Avery–MacLeod–McCarty...
infection is caused by random mutation and not adaptive change. 1944 – OswaldAvery shows that DNA carried the hereditary information in pneumococcus bacteria...
Double helix William Astbury OswaldAvery Florence Bell Lawrence Bragg Erwin Chargaff Francis Crick Michael Creeth Jerry Donohue Rosalind Franklin Raymond...
diffraction patterns that showed that DNA had a regular structure. In 1943, OswaldAvery, along with co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, identified DNA...
influenza B, and meningococcus. In the 1920s, Michael Heidelberger and OswaldAvery proved that antibodies were proteins that targeted the capsule of the...
immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and OswaldAvery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling...
as Richard Avery on the television drama Knots Landing, and for portraying Lee Harvey Oswald in the TV movie The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald. Pleshette...
such as Alec Stokes and Herbert Wilson. In addition, Erwin Chargaff, OswaldAvery, and Rosalind Franklin (whose key DNA x-ray crystallography work was...
by age 23. In his early years as a research scientist, MacLeod, with OswaldAvery and Maclyn McCarty, demonstrated DNA is the molecule responsible for...
nonliving, heat-stable substance generated from the smooth strain. Later on, OswaldAvery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty identified this transformational substance...
However, Barry states that when Welch has the virus, the scientist OswaldAvery maintained scientifical protocol and process of experiment in the hopes...
that he named opsoninization. In the 1920s, Michael Heidelberger and OswaldAvery observed that antigens could be precipitated by antibodies and went on...
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