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  Watson and Crick discovered the shape of DNA and called it the double helix.
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  Benzer got inside a gene and learned more about how they work on a moleculeular level.
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  Sydney and Crick discovered that a gene is read by three letters in a tripelet or codon.
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  Kornberg identified over a hundred enzymes used in metabolic reactions.
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  Discovered the repeats in DNA code.
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  Richard Roberts and Phillip Sharp discovered RNA splicing and how it works.
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  The first test tube baby was created.
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  Human Genome project was proposed and created.
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  He built a cell-fate map of C. elegans, enabling other scientists to compare and use mutants to find genetic defects.