Famous People with Name Maclyn

Maclyn McCarty            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maclyn McCarty: was an American geneticist.Maclyn McCarty, who devoted his life as a physician-scientist to studying infectious disease organisms, was best known for his part in the monumental discovery that DNA, rather than protein, constituted the chemical nature of a gene. Uncovering the molecular secret of the gene in question — that for the capsular polysaccharide of pneumococcal bacteria — led the way to studying heredity not only through genetics but also through chemistry, and initiated the dawn of the age of molecular biology. McCarty was the youngest and longest surviving member of the research team responsible for this feat (known as the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment),

Maclyn Thomas "Mac" McCutcheon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maclyn Thomas "Mac" McCutcheon: was a Canadian politician and farmer. Born in Croton, Ontario, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1963 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Lambton—Kent, and re-elected in the 1965 and 1968 elections. From 1972 to 1973 he was the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party while they were in opposition.