Title:

Harriett Ephrussi-Taylor

Date:

[ca. 1950s]

Description:

Harriet Ephrussi-Taylor in her office at the Genetic Laboratory at the University of Paris. Above her desk hangs a photograph of Oswald Avery. Ephrussi-Taylor was one of the first geneticists to recognize the importance of Avery, McLeod, and McCarty's 1944 paper on DNA as the transforming principle. After receiving her doctorate from Columbia University, she transferred to Avery's laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute in the summer of 1945. She studied the role of DNA in inheritance under Avery until both left Rockefeller in 1948.

Location:

Box: 171. Folder: 116

Rights:

Courtesy of Joshua Lederberg.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

BBBCTN

NLM ID:

101584906X13032

Profiles Collection:

The Joshua Lederberg Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584906X13032

Story Section:

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

Lederberg Grouping:

NONE. No Epoch.