Title:

Avery in Retrospect

Creator:

Pirie, N. W. (Norman Wingate), 1907-

Recipient:

Nature Magazine

Date:

29 December 1972

Description:

In this letter to Nature in response to the Wyatt article that chronicled a cool reception by molecular biologists to Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's 1944 article, Pirie seconded the criticism offered in earlier issues by Robert Olby and Joshua Lederberg.

Periodical:

Nature

Publisher:

MacMillan Magazines

Location:

Box: 4. Folder: 7

Rights:

Reproduced with permission from Nature. Copyright 1972, Macmillan Magazines Limited. and http://www.nature.com/nature/

Genre:

Articles
Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

History of Medicine

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

When Does Information Become Knowledge?, 1972
Reply to H. V. Wyatt, 1972
Avery in Retrospect, 1972
Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Robert C. Olby, 1972
Letter from Sewall Wright to Joshua Lederberg, 1973

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

MEDLINE UI. 73093197. Periodical. Pirie, N. W. "Avery in Retrospect." Nature 240, 5383 (29 December 1972): 572. Article. Letter (correspondence). 1 Image.. Nature

Legacy ID:

CCAARM

NLM ID:

101584575X427

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X427

Story Section:

After the Discovery: The Transforming Principle's Reception by the Scientific Community