OSWALD AVERY BY RYAN PAGE GAVIN JACHE BRENDON STINSON

LIFE  Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1877  His father was a Baptist minister, who was invited to move to New York City the year of his son’s birth to lead a congregation.  As an adult, suffered from hyperthyroidism (Graves disease) and underwent thyroid surgery in  Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1936.

EDUCATION  Received his AB (Artium Baccalaureatus: Bachelor in Arts) degree in 1900 from Colgate University.  Earned an M.D. degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1904.

CAREER  Practiced medicine in New York City until 1907 when he became a researcher at Hoagland Laboratory in Brooklyn, New York.  Was offered a job at Rockefeller Institute Hospital by Dr. Rufus Cole.  He researched the pneumococcus virus at the Rockefeller institute Hospital.

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS  Published a clinical study of the tuberculosis bacterium.  Continuing the research done by Frederick Griffith in 1927, Avery proved with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.

LATER LIFE  DEATH  Retired in  Died in 1955 due to liver cancer.  Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, '40s and '50s.

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