Johann friedrich miescher biography of mahatma
Biography of Friedrich Miescher!
Friedrich Miescher
Swiss biochemist ()
Johannes Friedrich Miescher | |
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| Born | ()13 August Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | 26 August () (aged&#;51) Davos, Switzerland |
| Education | University of Göttingen (M.D.Johann friedrich miescher biography of mahatma), University of Lepzig |
| Known&#;for | Discovery of nucleic acid |
| Spouse | Maria Anna Rüsch |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology |
Johannes Friedrich Miescher (13 August – 26 August ) was a Swiss physician and biologist.
He was the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid in Miescher also identified protamine and made several other discoveries.
Miescher had isolated various phosphate-rich chemicals, which he called nuclein (now nucleic acids), from the nuclei of white blood cells in Felix Hoppe-Seyler's laboratory at the University of Tübingen, Germany,[1] paving the way for the identification of DNA as the carrier of inheritance.
The significance of the discovery, first published in , was not at first apparent, and Albrecht Kossel made th