Gallery 17: Oswald Avery, around 1930
Oswald Avery at work in the laboratory, around 1930.
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16379. Gallery 17: Oswald Avery's memorandum of appointment
Memo approving Avery's appointment to the Rockefeller Institute.
16377. Gallery 17: Oswald Avery with of the Colgate band, 1900.
1900 picture of the Colgate band. Avery is seated in the middle holding his cornet.
16381. Gallery 17: Oswald Avery's letter to his brother, 1943
A page from the May 15, 1943 letter from Oswald Avery to his brother Roy. In the letter Avery speculated on how transformation could happen. Avery never publicly connected genes with DNA and his transformation experiments.
15674. Oswald Avery (c.1930)
Oswald Avery, circa 1930.
16385. Video 17: Maclyn McCarty, clip 1
Commenting on Avery as a scientific group leader and as a person.
16386. Video 17: Maclyn McCarty, clip 2
Relating how Avery was a successful orator while an undergraduate at Colgate University, and his subsequent disdain for public speaking as a scientist.
16387. Video 17: Maclyn McCarty, clip 3
Describing the in vitro transformation experiments: the effect of removing polysaccharides from the bacterial extracts.
16388. Video 17: Maclyn McCarty, clip 4
Describing the in vitro transformation experiments: the effect of destroying nucleic acids.