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Oswald T. Avery: the Wizard of York Avenue.

R. Austrian

Published 1999 in American Journal of Medicine

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For most young molecular biologists, the history of their subject is divided into two epochs; the last two years and everything else before that. The present and the recent past are perceived in sharp detail but the rest is swathed in a legendary mist where Crick, Watson, Mendel, Darwin—perhaps even Aristotle— coexist as uneasy contemporaries. It would not surprise me to find that most graduate students have not heard of Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty or of their discovery that the transforming principle of the pneumococcus was DNA. The general ignorance of our times might easily consign this book, with the wonderful title, The Transforming Principle, to the “Religion and Occult” section of a bookshop, as once I found Levi-Strauss’s The Raw and the Cooked under “Recipes.”

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