Oswald T. Avery Collection
Location: U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
Size: 6 boxes, 2.6 linear feet
Finding Aid: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/CC/p-nid/35
Phone: 301-402-8878 Fax: 301-402-0872
Email: hmdref@nlm.nih.gov Web: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/
Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) Papers, 1867-1970
Location: Tennesee State Library and Archives
Address: 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37243
Size: 600 items and 2 volumes, 1.68 linear feet
Finding Aid: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/70-128.pdf
Phone: 615-741-2764 Fax: 615-532-4272
Email: reference.tsla@state.tn.us Web: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/
"Both Francis and I had no doubts that DNA was the gene. But most people did. And
again, you might say, 'Why didn't Avery get the Nobel Prize?' Because most people
didn't take him seriously. Because you could always argue that his observations were
limited to bacteria, or that [the transformation of Pneumococcus that he described
was caused by] a protein resistant to proteases and that the DNA was just scaffolding."
James Watson. Nature, 302: 654. April 1983.
