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

Nobel laureate Thomas Lindahl says Oswald Avery鈥檚 discovery that DNA in our cells is the carrier of heredity was one of the greatest 20th century scientific insights, and yet Avery鈥檚 achievement wasn鈥檛 properly recognised in his lifetime.

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