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Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He discovered that genes come in pairs and they are inherited from each parent
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Avery showed that Fred Griffith's "transformaing principle" was DNA.
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Franklin produced x-ray crystallography pictures of BDNA. In 1953, both Wilkins and Franklin published papers on their X-ray data in the same Nature issue with Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA. She died of cancer in 1958
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In 1957, Stahl and Meselson developed the technique of density gradient centrifugation and used it to prove that DNA was replicated in a semi-conservative way, as predicted by Watson and Crick in their 1953 paper.
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Jacques Monod and François Jacob were the first to discover how genes were turned on and off
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Roger Kornberg figured out the importance of histones to chromatin structure. In 1972, Kornberg went to the Medical Research Council in Cambridge for postdoctoral work in X-ray crystallography.
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Cech headed for the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. Here he discovered the world of molecular biology.
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J. Craig Venter began the race to sequence the human genome. n the early 1990s, Venter developed the EST method of finding genes, and promoted it as cheaper and faster than the Human Genome Project that was just getting started
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