Identified “Nuclein”, identified DNA as a distinct molecule
Phoebus Levine
1869 - 1940
First to identify the components of DNA
Erwin Chargaff
1905 - 2002
Discovered that DNA is responsible for heredity and that it varies between species
Alfred Hershey & Martha Chase
1908 - 1997
Proved that phage DNA was the genetic material
Watson and Crick
1916 - 2004
Determined the double helix structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
1920 - 1958
Researched X-ray diffraction imaging techniques and led to the discovery of the DNA shape, the double helix. She was aided by Willis in her research
Nirenberg, Matthaei, Leter & Khorana
1927 - 2010
Discovered the first "triplet", a sequence of three bases of DNA that codes for one of the twenty amino acids that serve as the building blocks of proteins.
Ian Wilmut
1944 - 2020
Lead the research team that successfully cloned a lamb