Oswald Avery, Canadian-American physician and microbiologist (died 1955)

Oswald Avery

Canadian-American physician

Oswald Theodore Avery Jr. was a Canadian-American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller 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…