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Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Oswald T. Avery
- Title:
- Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Oswald T. Avery
- Creator:
- Coburn, Alvin F.
- Recipient:
- Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955
- Date:
- 25 May 1943
- Description:
- In this letter Coburn--an associate of both Avery and noted English bacteriologist Fred Griffith--thanks Avery for his recent visit to the Coburn home. One of the first to hear of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty's discovery that DNA was the transforming substance, Coburn also made a gift to Avery of a photo of Griffith, whose work on bacterial transformation initiated Avery's interest on the subject. Griffith was killed early in World War II when his laboratory was destroyed during an air raid.
- Original Repository:
- Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers
- Rights:
- Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. and http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/
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- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Fred Griffith and "Bobby", 1936 Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Joshua Lederberg, 1965 Oswald T. Avery, 1943 Avery with Alvin Coburn's son, Tim, 1943 Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Joshua Lederberg, 1965 Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Joshua Lederberg, 1965 Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Joshua Lederberg, 1966 Letter from Joshua Lederberg to Alvin F. Coburn, 1966 Letter from Alvin F. Coburn to Joshua Lederberg, 1966
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Tennessee State Library and Archives. Oswald T. Avery Papers. 361
- Legacy ID:
- CCBDBG
- NLM ID:
- 101584575X520
- Profiles Collection:
- The Oswald T. Avery Collection
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X520
- Story Section:
- DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944