"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
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About Alfred Hershey
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.
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