Which famous people have you outlived?

Colin Munro MacLeod

Canadian-American geneticist

Died when: 63 years 14 days (756 months)
Star Sign: Aquarius

 

Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod (January 28, 1909 – February 11, 1972) was a Canadian-American geneticist.He was one of a trio of scientists who discovered that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA is responsible for the transformation of the physical characteristics of bacteria, which subsequently led to its identification as the molecule responsible for heredity.


Related People

Edward Lawrie Tatum
American geneticist
George Beadle
American geneticist
Leonard Herzenberg
American geneticist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License