dipity

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• Erwin Chargaff
  1960

  Found the two rules that lead to the discovery of the double helix

• Rosalind Franklin
  1953

  Provided the information used by Watson and Crick to make the double helix structure that Rosalind was close to discovering.

• James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins
  Feb 28, 1953

  James Watson and Francis Crick ,along with Maurice Wilkins, discovered the structure of DNA as a double helix. The two strands of DNA run in opposite direction.

• Hershey and Chase
  1952

  Confirmed that DNA was the genetic material that was first demostrated by Oswald in 1944

• Linus Pauling
  1949

  Linus Pauling discovered the first human disease caused by an abnormal cell.

• Oswald Avery
  1927

  Continued the work of Frederick Griffith and looking to the mystery of inheritance.

• Frederick Griffith
  1920 to 1930

  Frederick Griffith discovered that when heat-killed smooth Pnuemococcus was injected with live rough Pnuemococcus the R strains were transformed into S strains

• Phoebus Levene
  1905 to 1929

  Identified the components of DNA