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Gregor Mendel
Discovered fundamental laws of inheritance. -
Friedrich Miescher
First to identify DNA a distinct molecule. -
Albrecht Kossel
Identified nuclein as a nucleic acid and providing its present chemical name deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) -
Nikolai Koltsov
He thought that DNA was made up of 2 mirror stands that replicate in a semi-conservative fashion. -
William Astbury
First to attempt to solve the structure of DNA and took first x-ray photographs of biological macromolecules found with living cells -
Frederick Sanger
Researching problems related to the determination of structure of proteins which resulted in the determination of the structure of insulin -
Erwin Chargaff - Late 40's
Figured out that the G&C units were the same & the A&T units were the same, which lead to the discovery of the double helix structure. -
Rosalind Franklin
Discovered the DNA molecule is shaped like a twisted ladder -
Maurice Wilkins
Analysed DNA Molecules Under Microscopes and Spectrophotometas -
James Watson & Francis Crick
Discovered the double helix, the twisted- ladder structure of DNA -
Raymond Gosling
Co-Authored Papers on Double Helix Strcuture -
Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana and Robert Holley
Deciphering of Genetic code
Formulated Method for Reading DNA
Answered DNA's Importance to all life -
Stanley Cohen & Herbert Boyer
Discovered ability to reconstruct DNA in foreign cells -
Kary Mullis
Showed How to replicate DNA, Paving way for DNA Fingerprinting -
Alec Jeffreys
discovery of genetic fingerprinting techniques