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Oswald Avery
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A highly regarded American bacteriologist who made significant contributions in the field of genetics.

Avery, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, attended and earned a medical degree at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1913, Avery began working with staff at the Rockefeller Institute Hospital in New York.

Avery's greatest discovery occurred in 1944 when he determined that genetic information is contained in the DNA of cells, correcting the time's widely held belief that proteins carried a cell's genetic information. His work led to extensive research on DNA.

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