Maclyn McCarty
American geneticist and researcher
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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... Wikipedia
Born: June 9, 1911, South Bend, IN
Died: January 2, 2005 (age 93 years), New York, NY
Children: Richard E. McCarty
Awards: Eli Lilly and Company-Elanco Research Award 1946; Robert Koch Prize (Gold, 1981); Wolf Prize for Medicine (1990)