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Oswald Avery
him and collegues Maclyn Mccarty and Colin Macleod reported that the genetic material of the cell was DNA -
Erwin Chargaff
Strongly suggested that base pairing existed within certain DNA pairs -
Rosalind Franklin
took xray crystallography pictures of BDNA -
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase
Confirmed that phage DNA was the genetic material, not protein -
James Watson and Francis Crick
came up with the structure for DNA -
Arthur Kornberg
showed that DNA can be made in a test tube -
Marshell Warred
Cracked the genetic code -
Roy Britten
showed that eukarotic genomes have many repetitive, noncoding DNA sequence -
Fredrick Singer
first person to obtain a protein sequence -
Leeland Hartwell
pioneer in yeast genetics
used yeast to identify many genes involved in protein synthesis
