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Oswald Avery
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Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
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Oswald Avery was a male physician, geneticist, chemist, and biochemist born in Halifax in 1877. He held citizenship in Canada and the United States and was educated at Colgate University and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. His professional career included employment at The Rockefeller University, where he focused on interests in molecular biology.
Avery received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Copley Medal. 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. He was also inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
His notable work includes the publication *Acute Lobar Pneumonia*. Avery died of liver cancer in Nashville on February 2, 1955, due to natural causes. He spoke English.
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- Acute Lobar Pneumonia
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Oswald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Halifax
- Place of death
- Nashville
- Occupation
- microbiologist
- Employer
- The Rockefeller University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Oswald T. Avery portrait 1937.jpg
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
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- Oswald Avery
- date of birth
- 1877-10-21
- date of death
- 1955-02-02
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- molecular biology
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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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