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Oswald Avery

Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher

  • Fame52.5
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia2.5K
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Lived 1877–1955, aged 78Canada
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    35 languages
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  • Era
    1877–1955
    Aged 78
  • Awards
    6
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-24

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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