Maclyn McCarty (1911-2005) was an American geneticist known for his role in the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, which demonstrated that DNA, rather than protein, constitutes the chemical nature of a gene. Working at Rockefeller University for more than six decades, McCarty was, by the time of his death, the last surviving member of the team whose 1944 publication overturned earlier assumptions about heredity and helped found modern molecular genetics. He also studied infectious disease, particularly streptococcal bacteria and rheumatic fever, and received the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1990.
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Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911, January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA."
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