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Excerpt from Report of the Director of the Hospital to the Corporation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, April 21, 1945

Title:: Excerpt from Report of the Director of the Hospital to the Corporation of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, April 21, 1945
Date:: 21 April 1945
Description:: This April 21, 1945 Director's Report accounted for the work conducted on "pneumococcus transforming substance" by Avery and others in the hospital over the previous year.
Original Repository:: Rockefeller Archive Center
Location:: Box: 3. Folder: 20
Rights:: Reproduced with permission of the Rockefeller Archive Center. and http://www.rockarch.org/
Genre:: Official reports
Excerpts
Subject:: Transformation, Bacterial and Deoxyribonucleases
Format:: Text
Extent:: 6 pages
Language:: English
Legacy Source Citation:: Original Repository. Rockefeller Archive Center. 357
Legacy ID:: CCAANN
NLM ID:: 101584575X330
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X330
Story Section:: DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944