Alfred Hershey
1908 - 1997
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Biography
Alfred Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist who, along with his research partner Martha Chase, conducted the famous Hershey-Chase experiment in 1952 that confirmed that DNA, rather than protein, is the genetic material of life. This groundbreaking experiment provided strong evidence for the role of DNA in heredity and revolutionized the field of molecular biology. Hershey's research laid the foundation for our understanding of how genetic information is transmitted from one generation to another.
Famous Quotes (5)
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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
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The most important things that I have learned have come from my curiosity, which leads me to seek out and try new things. If you ask a child what keeps his balloon from flying away, he will say, 'The man with the anchor holds it down.'
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Too often we focus on the technology and forget about the sociology.
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.