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Maclyn McCarty è noto soprattutto per aver messo a punto nel 1943 con Oswald Avery e Colin MacLeod un celebre esperimento che, proseguendo lungo la via intrapresa dall'esperimento di Griffith, dimostrò che il materiale genetico presente nelle cellule è composto di DNA.
Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005) [1] was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA ."
- January 2, 2005 (aged 93)
- June 9, 1911, South Bend, Indiana
26 gen 2005 · Maclyn McCarty, physician and microbiologist, died of congestive heart failure in New York City on 2 January. He was the last survivor of the three-man team that demonstrated that genes are...
- Richard M. Krause
- 2005
22 mar 2024 · Maclyn McCarty (born June 9, 1911, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.—died January 2, 2005, New York, New York) was an American biologist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin M. MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that the genetic material of living cells is composed of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 gen 2005 · By Lawrence K. Altman. Jan. 6, 2005. Correction Appended. Dr. Maclyn McCarty, the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940's and became the...
1 feb 2005 · Kathleen Gotschlich. Nature Cell Biology 7 , 111 ( 2005) Cite this article. 330 Accesses. Metrics. Maclyn McCarty, known to all of his friends as Mac, died on 2 January 2005 at the age of 93....
11 ott 2005 · Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene.
