Alfred Hershey
Physiologist
Bacteriologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for making discoveries on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. He also conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment where he proved that DNA and not protein was the material of life.
He attended Michigan State University and Washington University.
He became the director of the Carnegie Institution in 1962.
He had a son named Peter with his wife Harriet.
He shared the 1969 Nobel Prize with Salvador Luria and