DNA history

  • Edwin Chargaff,

    Edwin Chargaff,
    his discoveries led to the discoveries of the double helix structure of dna
  • Rosalind Franklin,

    Rosalind Franklin,
    X-ray crystallographer that helped define the structure of DNA
  • Oswald Avery,

    Oswald Avery,
    identified a complex carbohydrate called polysaccharide. which help lead to medicines
  • Hershey-Chase,

    research that helped name DNA a genetic material
  • ROSALIND ELSIE FRANKLIN

    she made the X-ray crystallography pictures of BDNA which help make discoveries
  • pauling

    pauling
    he suggested that there may be a double stranded helix
  • Francis Crick.

    also known as the co discoverer of DNa with james watson
  • James Watson

    he was the co-discoverer of the double helix in DNA
  • PAUL CHARLES ZAMECNIK

    he used radioactive isotopes to show that proteins were made from amino acids in a process requiring chemical energy
  • Maurice Wilkins

    his work with 2 others led to the 3d structure of a helix