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Oswald Theodore Avery
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- Oswald Theodore Avery was a Canadian-born molecular biologist and bacteriologist who discovered in 1944 that genes and chromosomes are made of DNA. Together with his colleagues Maclyn McCarty and Colin MacLeod, Avery engineered the molecular revolution in biology. Oswald Theodore Avery was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 21, 1877. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877–1955)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Oswald_Theodore_Avery
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