Oswald Avery
Also known as Oswald Theodore Avery
Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
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- Acute Lobar Pneumonia
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- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,828x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,604x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,651x
- Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
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Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) 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 (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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1877 births1955 deathsAmerican geneticistsAmerican medical researchersAmerican microbiologistsCanadian emigrants to the United StatesCanadian people of English descentColgate University alumniColumbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumniFellows of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesForeign members of the Royal Society