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Robert Hooke
Micrographia was published. Hooke also developed a compund microscope. -
Antony Van Leewenhoek
Discovered bacteria, made over 500 microscopes and is called the father of microbiology. -
Franz Bauer
Drew the first description of a cell nucleus. -
Friedrich Miescher
Miescher discovers "nuclien" or DNA in cell nuclei -
Loius Pasteur
Came up with pasterazation. Created vaccinations for rabbies -
Walter Fleming
Named Chromatin, correlated them to thread like structures, later called chromosomes. -
Mendel
William Bateson translates Mendels paper into english. -
Sir Archibald Garrod
First disease attributed to genetic cause. (Inborn Metabolism) -
Walter Sutton
Created the chromosome theory of heredity. Mendelin law of heredity -
Alexander Fleming
Creaed penicillin. Discovered enzymes like lysozyme. -
Ernst Ruska
Won the Nobel Prize,built the first electron microscope -
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Won the Nobel Prize for medicine. Studied the mutation of the fruit fly -
Andrei Nikolaevitch Belozersky
Isolated DNA in the purest state -
Oswald Avery
Studied the theory of inheritance -
Erwin Chargaff
Discovered the double helix -
Rosalind Franklin
X-ray Diffraction work, it killed her -
James Watson
Won the Nobel Prize for work on the structure of nucleic acids. -
Paul Berg
Cloned DNA -
Dolly the sheep
First mammal to be cloned -
Bt Corn
Genetically modified organism
