Science on the 1st of February 1944 in history

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Date	Type	Text
01 Feb 1944 Oswald T. Avery	science	Oswald T. Avery (biology) Oswald T. Avery and colleagues publish the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment showing that a DNA molecule can carry an inheritable trait to a living organism. This is important because many biologists thought that proteins were the hereditary material and nucleic acids too simple chemically to serve as genetic storage molecules.	0
01 Feb 1944 Lars Onsager	science	Lars Onsager (chemistry) Lars Onsager publishes the exact solution to the two-dimensional Ising model.	0

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