Maclyn McCarty

American geneticist (1911-2005) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 93

Maclyn McCarty was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA." He had worked at Rockefeller University "for more than 60 years."

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2005Died2 January 20051994Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical ScienceAward1990Wolf Prize in MedicineAward1989George M. Kober MedalAward1988Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko MedalAward1981Robert Koch Gold MedalAward1977Honorary doctorate of the University of FloridaAward1911Born9 June 1911