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Freidrich Miescher
Isolated the first crude preparation of DNA, named nuclein. -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Established the chromosomal theory of inheritance. -
Gregor Mendel
Discovered fundamental laws of inheritance through his work with pea plants, he deduced that genes come in pairs -
Barbara McClintock
Did pioneer work in plant genetics and determined the mechanism for transportation in corn. -
Hermann Muller
Showed that x-rays can induce mutations -
Oswald Avery
Showed that Fred Griffiths “transforming principle”was DNA. -
Erwin Chargaff
Isolated DNA from different organisms & measured the levels of each of the four nigrogeneous bases. -
Rosalind Franklin
Produced the x-ray crystallograpy pictures of BDNA -
Hershey-Chase
Studied bateriophage genetics -
James Watson
Came up with the double helix structure & proposed the central dogma and adaptor hypothesis
