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Alfred Hershey

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Profession
Physiologist
Died
May 22, 1997
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
Michigan
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.
Family
He had a son named Peter with his wife Harriet.

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