History of DNA Timeline

  • Sir Joseph Lockyer 1868

    Sir Joseph Lockyer 1868
    Sir Joseph Lockyer was a astronomer and a scientist he was the first to discover the suns atmosphere.
  • Miescher (1870)

    Miescher (1870)
    The first to isolate and identify
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley
    Defined atomic number
  • Georges Lemaitire 1927

    Georges Lemaitire 1927
    the first to discover the big bang theory.
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    Oswald Avery proves that DNA is the genetic material of the chromosome
  • Erwin Chargaff 1947

     Erwin Chargaff 1947
    Erwin Chargaff discovers the structure and how DNA is replicated.
  • Franklin and Wilkins 1950s

    Franklin and Wilkins 1950s
    They contributed to finding out that DNA was a twisted shape.
  • Hershey and Chase 1952

    Hershey and  Chase 1952
    Hershey and Chase both confirmed that DNA was a genetic material and they both conducted many experiments.
  • Watson and crick 1953

    Watson and crick 1953
    Watson and Crick were said to have ben the first to discover DNA they were the ones who were given the credit for this huge achievement.
  • Avery (1944)

    Avery (1944)
    Demonstrated that DNA is the transforming material cell.
  • Griffith (1928)

    Griffith (1928)
    Frederick Griffithwas the first to establish that there was a transforming princiable in bacterial genetics in a ground breaking experiment in 1928.