Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877–1955)

Oswald Theodore Avery was a Canadian-born molecular biologist and bacteriologist who discovered in 1944 that genes and chromosomes are made of DNA. Together with his colleagues Maclyn McCarty and Colin MacLeod, Avery engineered the molecular revolution in biology. Oswald ...

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