By seeking to understand the reproduction of viruses, Alfred Day Hershey made important discoveries about the nature of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and laid the groundwork for modern molecular genetics. Highly regarded as an experimental scientist,...

Alfred Day Hershey was born on December 4, 1908, in Owosso, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in bacteriology from Michigan State in 1934. He was appointed to the staff of the Department of Bacteriology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri....

Alfred Day Hershey (1908-1997) shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for his research on viruses. By seeking to understand the reproduction of viruses, the simplest form of life, Alfred Day Hershey made important discoveries about the nature of...

1908-1997 American geneticist and a founding member of the "phage group" who helped to establish that DNA carries the genetic code in all living things. In their famous "blender experiments" on radioactively labeled...

Alfred Day Hershey (December 4, 1908 – May 22 1997) was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University in 1930 and his Ph.D. in...

Alfred Hershey and his friends Max Delbruck and Salvatore Luria shared the 1969 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering research in the 1940s and early 1950s which established bacterial viruses (or phage) as a powerful experimental system to explore the molecular...

Alfred D. Hershey, 88, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose pioneering work with bacteria cells demonstrated that the DNA molecule is the carrier of genetic information, died of cardiopulmonary failure May 22 at his home in Syosset, N.Y. In a simple experiment using a...