DNA TIMELINE

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    DNA Timeline

  • Friedrich Miescher

    Friedrich Miescher

    He discovered the hereditary material, which he named nuclein. Later this was identify as DNA
  • Phoebus Levene

    Phoebus Levene

    He discovered the sugar ribose in nucleic acids
  • Frederick Griffith

    Frederick Griffith

    He discovered the phenomenon of transformation while studying pneumonia-causing bacteria
  • Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty

    Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty

    They discovered that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity
  • Rosalind Franklin

    Rosalind Franklin

    She discovered the three-dimensional structure of DNA using X-ray diffraction, capturing the famous "Photograph 51
  • Linus Pauling

    Linus Pauling

    He discovered the alpha-helix structure of proteins using X-ray crystallography
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff

    He disovered Chargaff's two Rules, which establish that in the DNA of any species, the amount of adenine (A) is always equal to that of thymine (T), and the amount of cytosine (C) is always equal to that of guanine (G)
  • Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

    Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

    They discovered that DNA is the genetic material responsible for heredity, not proteins
  • James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins

    James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins

    They dicovered the double helix structure of DNA