Scientists who found the chemical basis of heredity: Avery, MacLeod and McCarty with DNA as the carrier of genes, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin with its structure, Nirenberg and Matthaei with the genetic code and Garrod with inborn errors of metabolism. A person belongs here when the cited article describes work on DNA, the genetic code or heredity. It excludes physiologists and drug discoverers. Work on the chemistry of heredity is admitted whatever the prize or country, and a person known mainly for imaging the structure, such as Franklin, is admitted because the cited article ties the imaging to DNA.
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Archibald Garrod
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Bert B. A. de Vries
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Colin Munro MacLeod
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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David A. Koolen
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Erwin Baur
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Francis Crick
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Fritz Lenz
Medical Scientists
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Heinrich Matthaei
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
John M. Opitz
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Maclyn McCarty
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Marco Fraccaro
Pathologists and Anatomists
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Marshall Nirenberg
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Maurice Wilkins
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Michael Nehls
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Oswald Avery
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Renato Dulbecco
Immunologists and Infectious Disease Specialists
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Rosalind Franklin
Medical Scientists, Physiologists and Pharmacologists
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Marco Fraccaro (ESHG Genetics and Medicine Historical Network)
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developing human cytogenetics and being involved with a number of initial human chromosome abnormalities
View the Source Renato Dulbecco - Facts (NobelPrize.org)
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genetic material from the virus is incorporated into the host
View the Source Dr. David A. Koolen, MD, PhD (Koolen-de Vries Syndrome Foundation medical board)
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identification of various novel syndromes associated with neurodevelopmental disorders
View the Source A personal glimpse of Bert de Vries (Radboudumc news, 26 November 2020)
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I have been involved in the discovery of over dozens of genes associated with intellectual disability and/or autism
View the Source John M. Opitz (Wikipedia)
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for his detection and delineation of many genetic syndromes
View the Source Fritz Lenz (Deutsche Biographie)
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leitete dort das Institut für menschliche Erblehre bis zu seiner Emeritierung 1955.
View the Source Erwin Baur (Neue Deutsche Biographie)
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Pflanzenzüchter und Vererbungsforscher
View the Source Michael Nehls (source article)
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postdoctoral lecture qualification in molecular genetics
View the Source Wikipedia: Oswald Avery
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one of the first molecular biologists
View the Source Wikipedia: Archibald Garrod
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Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (25 November 1857-28 March 1936) was an English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.
View the Source Colin Munro MacLeod - Wikipedia
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He was one of a trio of scientists who discovered that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA is responsible for the transformation of the physical characteristics of bacteria, which subsequently led to its identification as the molecule responsible for heredity.
View the Source Francis Crick (Wikipedia)
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He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.
View the Source J. Heinrich Matthaei (Wikipedia)
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He is best known for his unique contribution to solving and providing a way to decode the genetic code on 15 May 1961.
View the Source Wikipedia: Maclyn McCarty
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Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911, January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist, a research scientist described in 2005 as "the last surviving member of a Manhattan scientific team that overturned medical dogma in the 1940s and became the first to demonstrate that genes were made of DNA."
View the Source Marshall Warren Nirenberg (Wikipedia)
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He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis.
View the Source Wikipedia: Maurice Wilkins
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He is most noted for initiating and leading early X-ray diffraction studies on DNA at King's College London, and for his pivotal role in enabling the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
View the Source Rosalind Franklin (Wikipedia)
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Her work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite.
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