Oswald Avery

Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher · Canada · Doctors · Lived 1877 to 1955 · aged 77

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Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City.

A life in dates

2004Canadian Medical Hall of FameAward1955Died2 February 19551947Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAward1945Copley MedalAwardGeorge M. Kober MedalAward1944Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1927Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward1877Born21 October 1877

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Awards

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame2004

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research1947

Copley Medal1945

George M. Kober Medal1945

Foreign Member of the Royal Society1944

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences1927

About this person

Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. 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 that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

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Canada

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