Person Preferred Name

Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod

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Photograph of Colin Munro MacLeod, MD (1909-1972), sitting in a laboratory, from p. 51 of the 1954 NYU Medical Violet yearbook. Dr. MacLeod was professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology of the New York University College of Medicine from 1941 to 1956. In 1944, Dr. MacLeod and his colleagues Dr. Avery and Dr. McCarthy showed that DNA is the sole material in the chromosomes which carries genetic information.