Title:

Roy C. Avery

Date:

[1940s]

Description:

Roy Avery was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. In 1943, in a letter from his brother Oswald, he became one of the first individuals outside the Rockefeller Institute to learn that DNA was genetic material.

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

Courtesy of The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.

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Genre:

Photographic prints
Portraits

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. B02067

Legacy ID:

CCBBDC

NLM ID:

101584575X505

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X505

Story Section:

DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944