| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry | 
| Year: | 1957 | 
| Number: | 79 - 0 | 
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| Nominee 1: 
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| Name: | Oswald Theodore  Avery | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1877 | 
| Year, Death: | 1955 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 2: 
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| Name: | Colin Munro  MacLeod | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1909 | 
| Year, Death: | 1972 | 
| Profession: | Dr | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominee 3: 
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| Name: | Maclyn  McCarty | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1911 | 
| Year, Death: | 2005 | 
| City: | New York | 
| State: | NY | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | John H Northrop | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1891 | 
| Year, Death: | 1987 | 
| City: | Berkeley | 
| State: | CA | 
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 | 
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| Comments: | Avery nominated in Chemistry after his death. | 
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