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Maclyn McCarty

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American geneticist (1911-2005)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1911 to 2005 · aged 93
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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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1994Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
1990Wolf Prize in Medicine
1989George M. Kober Medal
1988Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal
1981Robert Koch Gold Medal
1977Honorary doctorate of the University of Florida

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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." 1994 marked 50 years since this work's release.

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Lived 1911 to 2005 · aged 93
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