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May 22, 1997 (88 years old)
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Sagittarius
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Alfred Hershey
Alfred Day Hershey is a Nobel Prize-winning American bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received a PhD in chemistry from Michigan State University in 1930 and a doctorate. in Bacteriology in 1934, taking a position shortly thereafter in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Washington in St. Petersburg. Louis. He began to perform phage experiments with Italian-American Salvador Luria, German Max Delbrück, Indo-Canadian Adam Hasnain and Serbian-sera Mila Huhtala in 1940, and observed that when the two strains were Different types of bacteria infect the same bacteria, the two viruses can exchange genetic information. He and research partner Martha Chase went to Laurel Hollow, New York, in 1950 to join the Carnegie Institute of the Washington Department of Genetics, where he and Martha Chase performed the famous Hershey-Chase experiment in 1952. The experiment This provided further evidence that DNA, not protein, is the genetic material of life.
BornAlfred Day Hershey, December 04, 1908, Owosso, Michigan, US
DiedMay 22, 1997, Syosset, New York, US
NationalityUnited States
FieldsBacteriology, genetics, DNA
InstitutionsWashington University Medical School
Alma materMichigan State University
Known forProof of DNA as genetic material of life
Notable awardsAlbert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1958), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1969)

About Alfred Hershey

Physiologist Alfred Hershey was born on December 4, 1908 in Michigan, United States (He dies at the age of 88, on May 22, 1997).

Bacteriologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his research on virus reproduction and genetic organization. He also carried out the Hershey-Chase experiment, demonstrating that DNA, not protein, is the material of life.

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Alfred Hershey before becoming famous

Alfred Hershey was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1908 is also the year of Monkey (猴) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He went to Washington University and Michigan State University.

Achievement of Alfred Hershey

In 1962, he was named director of the Carnegie Institution.

Alfred Hershey's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

With his wife Harriet, he had a son named Peter.

Alfred Hershey Collabed with

He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 with Geneticist Salvador Luria and Physicist Max Delbruck.

Salvador Luria (1912 - 1991) (Geneticist)
Salvador Luria (1912 - 1991)

Geneticist
Max Delbruck (1906 - 1981) (Physicist)
Max Delbruck (1906 - 1981)

Physicist

Alfred Hershey Income & Net worth

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