HERSHEY

n. city in central Pennsylvania (USA); family name; Milton Hershey (1857-1946) United States philanthropist and industrialist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1903 and founded the city of Hershey (Pennsylvania, USA) in 1909; Alfred Hershey (1908-1997), United States biochemist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize (with Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck) for medicine or physiology for research on the mechanisms and materials of inheritance of viruses