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Roy C. Avery
Roy C. Avery
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The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection
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.
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