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Gregor Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
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Friedrich Miescher isolated "nuclein," DNA with associated proteins
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Frederick Griffith was a British bacteriologist. Griffith's famous 1928 experiment showed us that bacteria can distinctly change their function and form through transformation.
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Avery is best known for the experiment that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.
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In 1949, Chargaff discovered that the proportions of bases in DNA depend on the species the DNA comes from.
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Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, particularly Photo 51
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Hershey and Chase concluded that DNA, not protein, was the genetic material.
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Watson and Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
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Venter is known for leading the first draft sequence of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome.
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Collins discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project.
