Which Happened First?

Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty
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Maclyn McCarty 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." He had worked at Rockefeller University "for more than 60 years."…

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. John Archibald WheelerJuly 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008
  2. Luis Walter AlvarezJune 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988
  3. Maclyn McCarty (this page)June 9, 1911 – January 2, 2005
  4. Mstislav KeldyshJanuary 28, 1911 – June 24, 1978
  5. Polykarp KuschJanuary 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993
  6. William Howard SteinJune 25, 1911 – February 2, 1980

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