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HERSHEY, Alfred Day (1908 – 1997)

HERSHEY, Alfred Day (1908 – 1997)

1908 – 1997

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1952 CE

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Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.

HERSHEY, Alfred Day (1908 – 1997)
HERSHEY, Alfred Day (1908 – 1997)
CHASE, Martha Cowles (1927 – 2003)
CHASE, Martha Cowles (1927 – 2003)

DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning th…