Date: 1969

Title: Alfred Day Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine.

Description:

Alfred Day Hershey's (Ph.D. chemistry, 1934) discovery in 1952 at Cold Spring Harbor, New York that DNA is the molecule of heredity revolutionized molecular biology. Hershey was Michigan State University's first alumnus to win a Nobel Prize.





View the finding aid for the Alfred Day Hershey papers (UA 10.3.118).