Talk:Oswald Avery
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Why does the photo seem to attribute the discover of the double helix to Avery? I am an outsider, but it seems to me that Avery did tremendous work - but did not discover the double helix!
Discovery - not discoverer. Look under the photo for others involved in the discovery.
Avery did not use mice in his experiment
He found that DNA was the source of genetic information. NOT that it was a Double Helix (that was Watson and Crick) and he was not involved in the discovery, he helped find out what it did.
Oy! Somebody's got some splainin' to do! It seems there's plagiarism from http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/CC/Views/Exhibit/narrative/biographical.html on here (at least in the section about his family life). --ArtifexCrastinus (talk) 06:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] References
- "OSWALD THEODORE AVERY, 1877-1955." (1957). J Gen Microbiol. 17 (3): 539-49.
- Amsterdamska O. (1993). "From pneumonia to DNA: the research career of Oswald T. Avery.". Hist Stud Phys Biol Sci. 24 (1): 1-40.--Stone 15:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
