Awards & Winners

Oswald Avery

Date of Birth 21-October-1877
Place of Birth Halifax
(Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada)
Nationality Canada, United States of America
Also know as Dr. Oswald Avery
Profession Physician
Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. FRS was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist to not receive the Nobel Prize for his work, though he was nominated for the award throughout the 1930s, '40s and '50s. The lunar crater Avery was named in his honor.

Awards by Oswald Avery

Check all the awards nominated and won by Oswald Avery.

1947


Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
(For distinguished service through studies on the chemical constitution of bacteria.)

1945


Copley Medal
(For his success in introducing chemical methods in the study of immunity against infective diseases.)