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Alfred D. Hershey
Full Name of the recipient | Alfred D. Hershey |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1969 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Max Delbrück (33.3%) Salvador E. Luria (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Carnegie Institution of Washington, Long Island, New York, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Owosso, MI, United States USA |
Date of Birth | 4 December 1908 |
Age at the time of Award | 60 years |
Place of Death | Syosset, NY, United States USA |
Date of Death | 22 May 1997 |