The Discovery Of DNA by Friedrich Miescher
If you have watched TED presentation by Nobel Prize winner – James Watson, the co-founder of the DNA model; his discovery would not be started if the structure of DNA was not discovered in the year 1869.
Thankfully, back then, there was a science named Friedrich Miescher, who had spent his days in the lab in which located in the kitchen (as shown in the thumbnail above) studying biochemical nature of life using leukocytes he isolated from the pus on surgical bandages. Less people know that he’s the one who discovered nuclein – it is a nuclear material that is currently known as DNA.
Written by J.J. Yong on December 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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