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Oswald Avery

1877 - 1955

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Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. (October 21, 1877 – February 20, 1955) was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Avery is the 173rd most popular physician (down from 131st in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 39th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Physician.

Oswald Avery was a Canadian-American physician and microbiologist. He is most famous for his work with the Rockefeller Institute in developing the first effective vaccine for pneumococcus, a bacterial infection that causes pneumonia and meningitis.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Oswald Avery ranks 173 out of 726. Before him are Sushruta, Carl Wernicke, Albert of Riga, Severo Ochoa, Andrew Schally, and Merit-Ptah. After him are Kitasato Shibasaburō, Bernardo Houssay, Friedrich Miescher, Robert Knox, August von Wassermann, and Engelbert Kaempfer.

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Among people born in 1877, Oswald Avery ranks 32. Before him are Henry Norris Russell, Enrico De Nicola, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Karl Abraham, Emil Abderhalden, and Plutarco Elías Calles. After him are Alfred Kubin, Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, André Maginot, Alben W. Barkley, and Princess Auguste of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1955, Oswald Avery ranks 33. Before him are Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Michael Chekhov, Mihály Károlyi, Leonid Govorov, and Major Ritchie. After him are Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Cordell Hull, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Alexandros Papagos, Yves Tanguy, and Garegin Nzhdeh.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Oswald Avery ranks 62 out of 1,622. Before him are Joni Mitchell (1943), Howard Shore (1946), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943), Peter North (1957), and Catherine O'Hara (1954). After him are Elliot Page (1987), Eugene Levy (1946), Oscar Peterson (1925), Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879), Dan Aykroyd (1952), and David H. Hubel (1926).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Canada

Among physicians born in Canada, Oswald Avery ranks 2. Before him are Frederick Banting (1891). After him are David H. Hubel (1926), Charles Brenton Huggins (1901), Norman Bethune (1890), William Osler (1849), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Édouard Gagnon (1918), Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929), Maude Abbott (1868), James Heilman (1979), and Alaa Murabit (1989).

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