Title:

Oswald T. Avery and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society

Creator:

Bearn, Alexander G., 1923-2009

Date:

[Summer 1996]

Description:

In this article, Bearn chronicled early recognition of Avery's work on transformation by the Royal Society of London, and that body's decision to award him its prestigious Copley Award in 1945.

Periodical:

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Publisher:

University of Chicago. Press

Location:

Box: 5. Folder: 1

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

Awards and Prizes and Immunity

Format:

Text

Extent:

5 pages

Relation:

List of Proposed Foreign Members [to the Royal Society] 1944: Oswald Theodore Avery (b. 1877), 1944
Letter from Colin M. MacLeod, Mary MacLeod to Oswald T. Avery, 1944
Letter from Percival Hartley to Henry Dale, 1944
Copley Medal certificate, 1945
Address of the President: Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1945, 1946

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Bearn, Alexander G. "Oswald T. Avery and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 39, 4 ([Summer 1996]): 550-554. Article. 5 Images.. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Legacy ID:

CCAAOE

NLM ID:

101584575X347

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X347

Story Section:

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