DNA Timeline

By SCAxBROSIF

  • Donald Avery

    Donald Avery
    published a clinical study of the tuberculosis bacterium

  • Hershey-Chase

    Hershey-Chase
    blender experiment that proved phage DNA, and not protein, was the genetic material

  • James Watkins Francis Crick

    James Watkins Francis Crick
    using available X-ray data and model building, the two solved the structure of DNA.

  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    isolated dna from different organisms and measured the levels of each of the 4 levels of the nitrogenous bases

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin
    X-ray data in the same Nature issue with Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA

  • Kornberg

    Kornberg
    he isolated DNA polymerase I and show that life (DNA) can be made in a test tube

  • Nirenberg

    Nirenberg
    They showed that a synthetic messenger RNA made of only uracils can direct protein synthesis

  • Britten

    showed that eukaryotic genomes have many repetitive, noncoding DNA sequences

  • ROGER KORNBERG

    figured out the importance of histones to chromatin structure

  • Kary Mullis

    Kary Mullis
    invented the polymerase chain reaction