Oswald T. Avery Collection 1912-2005

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Oswald T. Avery Collection 1912-2005

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Artificial collection of primarily secondary research materials and photocopies of originals from the Rockefeller Archive Center assembled by Avery's colleague Joshua Lederberg. Avery's career focused on a "systematic effort to understand the biological activities of pathogenic bacteria through a knowledge of their chemical composition," focusing most of his research on a single species of pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae. The collection falls roughly into two parts: items related to the discovery of the transforming principle and items related to the discovery's reception by the scientific community.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Dubos, René J. (René Jules), 1901-1982

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Bacteriologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Rene Jules Dubos : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734154 Bacteriologist and 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner. From the description of Letter, 1948, July 1 : New York City, to Dr. S. Elberg, Berkeley, California. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35059804 Epithet: microbiologist and pathologist, Professor Department of Environmental Medicine ...

Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955

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Lederberg, Joshua

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Professor of Genetics at Stanford Medical School (1959-1978). Lederberg received a Nobel prize in 1958 and became president of Rockefeller Univeristy in 1978. From the description of Stanford University, ACME Project, records, 1961-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122446055 Lederberg earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1947. He taught genetics at the University of Wisconsin before coming to the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1959 as Professor of genetics an...

McCarty, Maclyn

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Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

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The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was established in 1901. It was the first institution in the United States devoted solely to bio-medical research. In 1958 the name was changed to the Rockefeller Institute; in 1965 the Institute became the Rockefeller University. From the description of Meningitis records, [ca. 1907-1911]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523442 The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 i...