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AVERY, Oswald Theodore Jr. (1877 – 1955)

AVERY, Oswald Theodore Jr. (1877 – 1955)

1877 – 1955

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1923 CE–1924 CE

#2573.2

The soluble specific substance of pneumococcus.

Heidelberger, Avery, and their colleagues made a chemical study of the antigenic constituents of the pneumococcus, separating the polysaccharide antigens.

1944 CE

#255.3

Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. Induction of transformation by a deoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from pneumococcus type III.

Demonstration that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the basic material responsible for genetic transformation. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Followed by: McCarty & Avery, "Studies on the chemical na…