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=Alfred Hershey= **1908** **1934** **1934 - 1950** ** 1950 ** ** 1952 ** ** 1958 ** ** 1959 ** ** 1965 ** **1969**
 * Born December 4 in Owosso, Michigan
 * PhD in bacteriology from Michigan State University
 * Got a job in the department of bacteriology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
 * Studied the life cycle of bacteria and bacterial viruses
 * Important foundation for "blender experiment"
 * Joined Carnegie institution of Washington
 * Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
 * Worked there until 1974 when he retired
 * "Blender experiment"
 * Proved DNA was the genetic material using viruses using bacteria to reproduce as evidence
 * Elected into the National Academy of Sciences
 * American Public Health Association’s Albert Lasker award
 * Elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 * Kimber Genetics Award from the National Academy of Sciences
 * Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for proving that DNA was the genetic material


 * Died at age 88

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