Video 18: Al Hershey, clip 1

Al Hershey spent 47 years at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Hershey was best known for his work, with Martha Chase, that showed that genes were made of DNA. Al Hershey passed away on May 22, 1997.

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16408. Gallery 18: Raymond Appleyard, George Bowen, Martha Chase, June Dixon, 1953

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11002. Director's residence, The Biologocial Laboratory and Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

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16407. Gallery 18: Martha Epstein Chase

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16404. Gallery 18: E. B. Lewis, C. C. Lindegren, Alfred Hershey and Joshua Lederberg, 1951

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