Alfred Hershey
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About
Bacteriologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for making discoveries on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. He also conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment where he proved that DNA and not protein was the material of life.
Before Fame
He attended Michigan State University and Washington University.
Trivia
He became the director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962.
Family Life
He had a son named Peter with his wife Harriet.
Associated With
He shared the 1969 Nobel Prize with Salvador Luria and
