Oswald Avery

(1877-1955)

Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher

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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.

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Born	Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. 21 October 1877 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada
Died	20 February 1955 (aged 77) Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Zodiac	Libra
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