Question

In what year did Alfred Hershey receive the Nobel Prize for his work on the genetic material?

Options

• 1969

• 1972

• 1965

• 1962

Answer 1

Alfred Hershey received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses. This recognition reflected the fundamental importance of the Hershey-Chase experiment in establishing DNA as the genetic material.