Title:

Maclyn McCarty

Date:

[Early 1940s]

Description:

McCarty joined Avery's lab at the Rockefeller Institute in 1941. He and Avery continued to perfect purification techniques developed by Colin M. MacLeod that were essential to unlocking bacterial transformation.

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. B017867

Legacy ID:

CCBBDH

NLM ID:

101584575X509

Profiles Collection:

The Oswald T. Avery Collection

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X509

Story Section:

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