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Neglected hero of science? Why Oswald Avery missed out on a Nobel Prize

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Nobel laureate Thomas Lindahl says Oswald Avery’s discovery that DNA in our cells is the carrier of heredity was one of the greatest 20th century scientific insights, and yet Avery’s achievement wasn’t properly recognised in his lifetime.

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