HEALTH : DNA Pioneer Wins Medical Prize
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JERUSALEM — An American pioneer in genetic research has won the $100,000 Wolf Prize for Medicine, the Israel-based Wolf Foundation announced today.
Prof. Maclyn McCarty of Rockefeller University, New York City, was awarded the prize for his work on the genetic material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
In its citation, the foundation said research on the DNA genetic factor “opened the way to the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century in molecular biology, climaxed by the unraveling of the genetic code.”
Born in South Bend, Ind., in 1911, McCarty is the only survivor of three Rockefeller Institute scientists who published their discovery in the mid-1940s. The others were Colin MacLeod and Oswald Avery.
