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Oswald Avery was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist whose research helped ascertain that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity, thus laying the foundation for the new science of molecular genetics.
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.
Oswald Avery led the team that discovered DNA passes heredity instructions through successive generations of organisms – it carries the chemical code of life. Avery and his colleagues published their discovery in a classic paper describing what came to be known as the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment.
Although many scientists acknowledge the impact of Avery's work on the field of molecular biology, Oswald Avery did not win a Nobel Prize. The reason might be that Avery never publicly stated that a gene is made of DNA. In his paper, Avery showed that DNA is the transforming principle.
Oswald Theodore Avery was born on 21 October 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the second of three sons of Elizabeth Crowdy and Joseph Francis Avery. A Baptist minister in England, Joseph Avery and his wife emigrated to Canada in 1873.
Dec 12, 2013 · Oswald Theodore Avery studied strains of pneumococcus of the genus Streptococcus in the US in the first half of the twentieth century. This bacterium causes pneumonia, a common cause of death at the turn of the twentieth century.
Oswald Theodore Avery (1877–1955) was the sixteenth president of the American Association of Immunologists, serving from 1929 to 1930. He enjoyed a remarkable, 35-year career at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, where he conducted pioneering studies on pneumococcus, among other subjects, from 1913 to 1948.
