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Frederick Miescher
He discovered nucleic acids in phosphate rich chemicals. -
John D. Rockefeller
He forms Standard Oil and starts a chain reaction of many people monopalizing the industies around the world -
Phoebus Levene
Levene discovered Ribose in 1909 and discovered dexi-ribose in 1929. He also discovered the phosphate-sugar-bases. -
WWI
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WWI
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Roaring Twenties
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Frederick Griffith
In 1928 he did what was called the Griffith experiment which showed bacyerial transformations. This was the first time an experiment like this had been widley accepted. -
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WWII
World War II starts. -
Colin Macleod
Macleod found the difference between smooth and rough bacteria. He researched how one will make you sick and one will not. This was very important in finding the cures to many illnesses people were encountering at the time. -
Linus Pauling
HE was one of the most influential chemist of all time and is the only person to have recieved two unshared nobel prizes and two nobel prizes in different feilds. He was one of the founders of molecular biology. -
Oswald Avery
He discovered that genes and chromosomes were made of DNA in 1944 -
WWII
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Alfred Hershey
In 1952 he performed an experiment that proved DNA was the building block for most things and not protein. -
Martha Chase
She was a lab assistant for Hershey. She helped produce the Hershey-Chase experiment. -
Erwin Chargaff
He dcame up with and discovered Chargaff's rules. this lead to the discovery of what the bases and DNA are made up of and why they would be made up of that. -
Rosalind Franklin
She wrote a hypothesis about the structure of DNA in 1953. -
Maurice Wilkins
Wilkins, witht he help of Rosalind Franklin, used x-ray defraction to show a mre acurate version of DNA structure. -
James Watson
He helped discover the structure of the DNA and was awarded the 1962 nobel prize. -
Francis Crick
Crick was naother co discoverer of the DNA structure in 1953. He also discovered the flow of DNA to RNA to protein.
