Alfred Hershey

Parents

1901-Today Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1902-Today Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) (legal name is Carnegie Institution of Washington)
1921-? Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics
American geneticists
Directors of Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS)
Founding members of the World Cultural Council
Phage workers
Washington University in St. Louis faculty

1940 Alfred Hershey began performing experiments with bacteriophages with Italian-American Salvador Luria, German Max Delbruck, Indian-Canadian Adam Hasnain, and Serbian Mila Huhtala in 1940, and observed that when two different strains of...
1945 Delbruck, Luria, and Hershey set up a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York.
1952 Hershey-Chase experiment
1969 Salvador Luria won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969, with Max Delbruck and Alfred Hershey, for their discoveries on the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses.
1997? After Hershey died, another phage worker, Frank Stahl, wrote: "The Phage Church, as we were sometimes called (see Phage group), was led by the Trinity of Delbruck, Luria, and Hershey.
Anna Marie Skalka