Griffith's experiment discovering the " transforming principle " in pneumococcus bacteria.

Until Griffith's experiment, bacteriologists believed that the types were fixed and unchangeable, from one generation to another.

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* Frederick Griffith conducts Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.

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In 1944, Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty demonstrated the transforming factor in Griffith's experiment was DNA, not protein, as was widely believed at the time.

* January-Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.

* 1928 – Griffith's experiment shows that living cells can be transformed via a transforming principle, later discovered to be DNA

: 1928: Frederick Griffith discovers that hereditary material from dead bacteria can be incorporated into live bacteria ( see Griffith's experiment )

In January 1928 he reported what is now known as Griffith's Experiment, the first widely accepted demonstrations of bacterial transformation, whereby a bacterium distinctly changes its form and function.

Avery's associate Martin Dawson at The Rockefeller Hospital confirmed each of Griffith's reported findings.

Sports Illustrated reported in its April 18, 2005, edition that Griffith's rage may have been fueled by an anti-gay slur directed at him by Paret during the weigh-in.

Mary Philbin made her screen debut in 1921 and during the 1920s she became a highly successful film actress and starred in a number of high profile films, most notably in D. W. Griffith's 1928 film Drums of Love.

His new production company became an autonomous production unit partner in Triangle Film Corporation along with Thomas Ince and Keystone Studios ' Mack Sennett ; the Triangle Film Corporation was headed by Griffith's partner Harry Aitken, who was released from the Mutual Film Corporation, and his brother Roy.

Griffith's work in the teens was highly regarded by Kuleshov and other Soviet filmmakers and greatly influenced their understanding of editing.

But Griffith's first use of cross-cutting in The Fatal Hour, made in July 1908, has a much stronger suspense story served by this construction than those in the earlier Pathé examples.

The idea developed slowly through the war years, until in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms ( 1918 ) all the Close Ups of Lillian Gish are heavily diffused by the use of layers of fine black cotton mesh placed in front of the lens.

Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state " I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice.

Francis Crick recognized the potential importance of the Griffith protein-only hypothesis for scrapie propagation in the second edition of his " Central dogma of molecular biology ": while asserting that the flow of sequence information from protein to protein, or from protein to RNA and DNA was " precluded ", he noted that Griffith's hypothesis was a potential contradiction ( although it was not so promoted by Griffith ).

Starting with the mostly original score composed by Joseph Carl Breil for D. W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic The Birth of a Nation ( USA, 1915 ) it became relatively common for the biggest-budgeted films to arrive at the exhibiting theater with original, specially composed scores.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

Quarterback John Elway's 41-yard completion to wide receiver Rod Smith and 2 receptions by tight end Shannon Sharpe for a total of 26 net yards setup fullback Howard Griffith's 1-yard touchdown run.

" by Bill Griffith, transcript of Griffith's talk at the 2003 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels

In 1905, Griffith's Improved Vacuum Apparatus for Removing Dust from Carpets was another manually operated cleaner, patented by Walter Griffiths Manufacturer in Birmingham, England.

After cancelation, the two would continue to either have lunch, have kept in touch ( primarily by phone ), have run into each other or to join themselves in 2 separate TV reunions, for nearly 45 years until Griffith's death in July 2012.

In 1921, the Photokinema sound-on-disc system developed by Orlando Kellum was employed to add synchronized sound sequences to D. W. Griffith's failed silent film Dream Street.

Bitzer provided assistance during Griffith's directorial debut, 1908's The Adventures of Dollie, which was shot by Arthur Marvin.

The apex of Bitzer and Griffith's collaboration came with The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), a film funded in part by Bitzer's life savings, and the epic Intolerance ( 1916 ).

The virginal " good girls " seen in the cinema of D. W. Griffith, and the silent movie " bad girls " portrayed by Theda Bara, both show the continuing influence of symbolism, as do the Babylonian scenes from Griffith's Intolerance.

* Mount Airy-Town With an Identity Crisis A behind the scenes look at Mount Airy, and the city-popularized by Andy Griffith's Mayberry.

A cautious and thorough researcher, and a reticent individual, Griffith's tendency was to publish only findings that he believed truly significant, and Griffith's findings were rapidly confirmed by researchers in Avery's laboratory.

Avery biographer and colleague at The Rockefeller Institute, microbiologist Rene Dubos, recruited by The Rockefeller Institute from France, later described Griffith's findings as " exploding a bombshell in the field of pneumococcal immunology ".

) Griffith's report was virtually ignored by clinicians, and by the medical sector as a whole.

( Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-Its real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson ( according to various sources ); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.

W. T. Cosgrave's Crown-appointed Provisional Government of Southern Ireland effectively subsumed Griffith's republican administration with the death of both Collins and Griffith in August 1922.

Matlock also has conspicuously finicky fashion sense ; he generally appears in court wearing a trademark light gray suit and, over the series ' entire run, owned three generations of the Ford Crown Victoria – always an all-gray model ( Griffith's character had always driven Ford products in his 1960s series, The Andy Griffith Show ).

Often regarded in the context of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, which had appeared five years earlier, critics have considered Micheaux's project as a response to Griffith.

He eventually succeeded Marvin as Griffith's regular cinematographer, working with him on some of his most important films and contributing significantly to cinematic innovations attributed to Griffith.

Whitman then began to fire upon people walking upon Guadalupe Street, where he first shot and injured a 17-year-old newspaper delivery boy named Alex Hernandez, before fatally wounding a 17-year-old girl named Karen Griffith with a shot to the shoulder which destroyed Griffith's right lung.

*: Following Arthur Griffith's death and Michael Collins's assassination in August 1922, Cosgrave simultaneously held both their offices ; like Griffith he used the title " President of Dáil Éireann ".

One of Emshwiller's neighbors in Levittown was Bill Griffith, later acclaimed for his Zippy syndicated comic strip, and Griffith's parents sometimes posed as models for Emshwiller's illustrations.

More accurately, point six of Griffith's abstract reports that R tended to transform into S if a large amount of live R, alone, were injected, and that adding much heat-killed S made transformation reliable Griffith also induced some pneumococci to transform back and forth.

* Griffith's December 20, 1963 bout with Rubin Carter ( which Griffith lost ) is depicted in the opening scene of the 1999 motion picture The Hurricane.

She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ).

Griffith himself was very much the dominant influence on the court in its early years, but after the appointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs and H. B. Higgins in 1906, and the death of foundation Justice Richard O ' Connor, Griffith's influence began to decline.

On 13 March 1893, the Governor accepted Griffith's resignation from Vice-President and Member of the Executive Council and Chief Secretary and Attorney General and appointed Griffith to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland where he served until 4 October 1903.

" Griffith ’ s son Alexander and daughter Dakota were there, as was her former stepson, Jesse Johnson, and Griffith's mother, Tippi Hedren.

In the earliest days of Hollywood, the original score for D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), compiled by Joseph Carl Breil and Griffith, used the music in the climactic scene of the third act, when " The former enemies of North and South are united again in defense of their Aryan birthright " against liberated former black slaves after the end of the American Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's ' Abraham Lincoln, is a ( 1930 ) biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith.

* Dickey Chapelle features as the subject of the song " Pearl's Eye View " by Nanci Griffith in collaboration with the folk duo The Kennedys, on Griffith's album Clock Without Hands.

In 1924, he traveled to Germany with Griffith and made the pseudo-documentary Isn't Life Wonderful, co-starring Griffith's muse and then girlfriend Carol Dempster.