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Oswald Avery
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Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
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Oswald Avery (1877–1955) was a Canadian and American physician, geneticist, chemist, and biochemist. Born in Halifax and educated at Colgate University and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, he worked at The Rockefeller University. His professional interests included molecular biology. He was a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Avery received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Copley Medal, and was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His published works include *Acute Lobar Pneumonia*. He died of liver cancer in Nashville.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Acute Lobar Pneumonia
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- London
- Active from
- 1986-09-30
Discography
- Airstrike2012
- Movement EP2012
- Nylon Icon2012
- Need Electric2012
- Water Jump2012
- Drone Logic2013
- Drone Logic EP2014
- Slow Fade2018
- Song for Alpha2018
- Projector2018
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,922x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,660x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,692x
- Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
· 2005 · cited 4,240x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2023 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2023 · cited 4,162x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “In view of the fact that lobar pneumonia is prevalent in military camps in the United States, and that at present it is impossible to obtain white mice in sufficient numbers for carrying out the biologic tests necessary in the determination of types of pneumococcus, a rapid cultural method dispensing with the use of these animals is now proposed.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1877-10-21 ) October 21, 1877, Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada
- Died
- February 20, 1955 (1955-02-20) (aged 77), Nashville, Tennessee , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Colgate University (undergraduate) Columbia University (doctoral)
- Known for
- Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment DNA transmits heredity
- Awards
- Copley Medal (1945) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1947)
- Fields
- Molecular biology
- Institutions
- Rockefeller University Hospital
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Encyclopedic overview
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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