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  1. Oct 17, 2024 · pneumococcus. transformation. Oswald Avery (born October 21, 1877, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada—died February 20, 1955, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) was a Canadian-born American bacteriologist whose research helped ascertain that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity, thus laying the foundation for the new science of molecular genetics.

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  2. Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955) Oswald Avery was born in 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His father was a Baptist minister, and when Oswald was ten, his father became the pastor at the Mariners' Temple in New York's Lower East Side. Avery's parents were strong, enterprising people. They managed quite well on a small pastoral salary in the midst ...

  3. Oswald Theodore Avery was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on October 21, 1877. His British parents, Joseph Francis Avery and Elizabeth Crowdy, had arrived in Canada four years earlier. They had emigrated because Joseph, a Baptist minister, felt a spiritual calling to do God’s work in North America. The couple’s three sons were all born ...

  4. Jan 31, 2020 · Gene Idol. Michael Blanding. Oswald Avery, Class of 1900, made a discovery that revolutionized science. Now, Colgate biologists are following in his footsteps to make their own genetic revelations. Oswald Avery, Class of 1900, was a man who collected nicknames. During his years at fin de siècle Colgate, fellow students called him “Babe ...

  5. May 7, 2019 · The discovery was called the "transforming principle" and through his experiments, Avery and his co-workers found that the transformation of the bacteria was due to DNA. The Oswald Avery contribution to DNA science is immense because of this discovery. Previously, scientists thought that traits like this were carried by proteins, and that DNA ...

  6. He was so good that he won a scholarship to the National Conservatory of Music. In 1893, Avery attended the Colgate Academy and later the Colgate University. He became the leader of the college band and acquired the nickname "Babe" because of his small stature. Avery was a good student and graduated from Colgate with a B.A.

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  8. Biographical Overview. "Dr. Avery was a true scientist with an insatiable curiosity and a powerful and unremitting urge to discover the innermost mechanisms of the biological facts that came under his observations." Oswald Theodore Avery was born on 21 October 1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the second of three sons of Elizabeth Crowdy and Joseph ...

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