Who was Oswald Theodore Avery Jr.?
Q: Who was Oswald Theodore Avery Jr.?
A: Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.
Q: What is he best known for?
A: He is best known for the experiment (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) which proved that DNA is the material from which genes are made.
Q: Was he ever awarded a Nobel Prize?
A: No, even though he was nominated for the award several times during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, he never received a Nobel Prize.
Q: Who said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive a Nobel Prize?
A: The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive a Nobel Prize for his work.
Q: What did Avery study?
A: He studied immunochemistry and molecular biology.
A:He studied immunochemistry and molecular biology.
