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CHRISTIANE NÜSSLEIN-VOLHARD
she mastered gene control -
oswald Avery
he is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. -
James Watkins
Watson's key contribution was in discovering the nucleotide base pairs that are the key to the structure and function of DNA. This key discovery was made in the Pauling tradition -
Erwin Chargaff
Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA -
Hershey-Chase
The Hershey-Chase experiment was a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase. It identified DNA to be the genetic material of phages and, ultimately, of all organisms -
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray diffraction images of DNA which formed a basis of Watson and Crick's hypothesis of the double helical structure of DNA in their 1953 publication -
Francis Crick
Crick assisted in the development of a mathematical theory of X-ray diffraction by a helical molecule. This theoretical result matched well with X-ray data for proteins that contain sequences of amino acids in the Alpha helix conformation Helical diffraction theory turned out to also be useful for understanding the structure of DNA. -
kary mullis
talks about his discovery of the polymerase chain reaction ,a process that allows chemists to produce many copies of a specific fragment of DNA. -
leland hartwell
Hartwell identified the fundamental role of checkpoints in cell cycle control -
alec jeffreys
discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting in a laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester
