Roy C. Avery Roy C. Avery

Contributor(s): The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection Publication: Produced: [1940s] Language(s): No linguistic content Format: Still image Genre(s): Archival Materials Photographic prints Portraits Abstract: Roy Avery was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. In 1943, in a letter from his brother Oswald, he became one of the first individuals outside the Rockefeller Institute to learn that DNA was genetic material. Copyright: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use. Extent: 1 pages NLM Unique ID: 101584575X505 (See in Profiles in Science) Profiles in Science ID: CCBBDC Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X505 Archival Collection: The Oswald T. Avery Collection (Profiles in Science)