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write biography on Oswald Avery in 200 words​

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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.[4][5][6]

Oswald Avery Jr.

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Oswald T. Avery portrait 1937.jpg

Oswald Avery Jr. in 1937

Born

October 21, 1877

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[2]

Died

February 20, 1955 (aged 77)

Nashville, Tennessee, US[2]

Nationality

Canadian-American

Alma mater

Columbia University

Known for

Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment

DNA transmits heredity

Awards

Copley Medal (1945)Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1947)

Scientific career

Fields

Molecular biology[3]

Institutions

Rockefeller University Hospital

The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work,[7] though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.[8][9]

The lunar crater Avery was named in his honor

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