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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Oswald T Avery, the unsung hero of genetic science
>
> Seventy years ago this quiet man announced one of the most important
> discoveries in the history of science: the genetic role of DNA. .  . .In
> 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick changed the face of biology<http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/biology> when
> they discovered the double helix structure of DNA, on the basis of
> experimental studies carried out by Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin.
> But not many people know why they were studying this stuff in the first
> place, how it was realised that genes are made of DNA, and why it took such
> a long time for scientists to accept this fact.
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jun/03/oswald-t-avery-genetic-science-dna
>
> See also:
>
>
> http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/the-discovery-of-the-molecule-of-heredity-matthews-new-guardian-piece/#comments
>
> This is another anniversary in the history of genetics: it’s been seventy
> years since three investigators at Rockefeller Institute in New York City
> (now Rockefeller University, where I began grad school)—Oswald Avery, Colin
> MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty (“AMM”)—discovered that DNA was the genetic
> material. Although their paper on this work was published in 1944
> (reference and link below, full pdf here<http://jem.rupress.org/content/79/2/137.full.pdf+html>),
> May 26, 1943 was the day that Oswald Avery wrote to his brother announcing
> the discovery. (You can see Avery’s scrawled letter here<http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/CCBDBF.pdf>
> .)
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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> Martin Weiss, PhD
> Senior Scientist
> New York Hall of Science
> mweiss at nyscience.org
> cell   347-460-1858
> desk 718 595 9516
>



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