Oswald Avery Summary

Oswald Theodore Avery 1877-1955 Canadian-American Bacteriologist and Physician DNA's role in genetics and heredity was one of the focal points of biological inquiry in the second half of the tw... Read more

Avery (ca. 1877-1955) was one of the founding fathers of immunochemistry and a major contributor to the scientific evolution of microbiology.Oswald Theodore Avery was one of the founding fathers of im... Read more

Oswald Avery was one of the founding fathers of immunochemistry (the study of the chemical aspects of immunology) and a major contributor to the scientific evolution of microbiology. His studies of th... Read more

By the early 1940s, scientists knew that chromosomes existed and that they were composed of smaller units called genes. Chemical analysis had revealed that the eucaryotic chromosome consists of about ... Read more