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  published a clinical study of the tuberculosis bacterium
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  blender experiment that proved phage DNA, and not protein, was the genetic material
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  using available X-ray data and model building, the two solved the structure of DNA.
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  isolated dna from different organisms and measured the levels of each of the 4 levels of the nitrogenous bases
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  X-ray data in the same Nature issue with Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA
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  he isolated DNA polymerase I and show that life (DNA) can be made in a test tube
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  They showed that a synthetic messenger RNA made of only uracils can direct protein synthesis
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  showed that eukaryotic genomes have many repetitive, noncoding DNA sequences
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  figured out the importance of histones to chromatin structure
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  invented the polymerase chain reaction