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Gregor Mendel
Published results of his investigation of the inheritance of "factors" in pea plants. -
Arne Tiselius
Introduced electrophoresis, a new technique for separating proteins in a solution. -
Erwin Chargaff
Creates what’s now known as “Chargaff’s Rules”, this shows the amounts of adenine and thymine and cytosine and guanine are always about the same. -
Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
Performed X-ray crystallography studies. -
James Watson and Francis Crick
Proposed the double-stranded, helical, complementary, non-parallel model of DNA. -
Frederick Sanger
First complete sequence of a protein. -
Arthur Kornberg
Produced DNA in a test tube. -
Paul Berg
Produced the first recombinant DNA molecule. -
Barbara McClintock
Awarded nobel prize for discovering that genes are able to change position on chromosomes. -
Alec Jeffreys
Developed the technique called “genetic fingerprinting” where sequences of DNA are used for identification.
