Oswald T. Avery collection, 1909-1998.

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Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955. Oswald T. Avery collection, 1909-1998.

Oswald T. Avery collection, 1909-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49760953

Consists of materials collected by Joshua Lederberg over his thirty year professional relationship with Oswald T. Avery. The materials include published articles and books, laboratory notes, correspondence, speeches, official reports, photographs, and audio cassettes. Documents range in date from 1912 to the late 1990s, most coming from the 1940s and from the 1960s to the present. A large part of the collection consists of published materials, and a number of significant items are copies of materials at the Rockefeller Archive Center and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. 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. Particularly noteworthy are 10 sets of notes from the Avery laboratory (1940-46) with captions by Maclyn McCarty and 6 photographs of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital Staff (1923-49/50).

2.6 linear ft. (6 boxes)

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