The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Awarded on: 1969-10-16
"for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses"
Affiliations:
- Carnegie Institution of Washington – Long Island, New York, NY, USA
Alfred D. Hershey
Born: 1908-12-04 in Owosso, MI, USA
Gender: male
Field: American bacteriologist and geneticist
Biography
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.