Maclyn McCarty

Awards

1. 1990

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for his part in the demonstration that the transforming factor in bacteria is due to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the concomitant discovery that the genetic material is composed of DNA.

2. 1994

   Lasker Award — Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science

   Biology

   For seminal and historic investigation which revealed that DNA is the chemical substance of heredity and for ushering in a new era of contemporary genetics.