• 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
