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Discovery of nucleic acid. Spouse. Maria Anna Rüsch. Scientific career. Fields. Biology. Johannes Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844 – 26 August 1895) was a Swiss physician and biologist. He was the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid in 1869. Miescher also identified protamine and made several other discoveries.
Friedrich Miescher (born August 13, 1844, Basel, Switzerland—died August 26, 1895, Davos) was a Swiss student of cell metabolism and the discoverer of nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher discovered a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white ...
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Apr 6, 2020 · Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance he christened “nuclein”. The article explains how he came...
- Ehud Lamm, Oren Harman, Sophie Juliane Veigl
- 2020
Johann Friedrich Miescher. 1844-1895. Swiss scientist who discovered nucleic acids. Miescher found that the nuclei of the white blood cells found in pus contained a substance containing phosphorous and nitrogen. The substance was first called nuclein, but after Miescher separated it into protein and an acid molecule, nuclein became known as ...
Feb 15, 2005 · The beginnings of Miescher's scientific career Johann Friedrich Miescher ( Fig. 1 A) was born in Basel, Switzerland on August 13, 1844, into a family of scientists ( His, 1897b ). His father, Johann F. Miescher, and more notably his uncle, Wilhelm His ( Fig. 1 B), were renowned physicians and professors of anatomy and physiology at the University of Basel. As a result of growing up in this ...
- Ralf Dahm
- 2005
2 days ago · Quick Reference. (1844–1895) Swiss biochemist. Miescher came from a distinguished scientific family from Basel in Switzerland: both his father, also called Johann Friedrich, and his uncle, Wilhelm His, held the chair of anatomy at the University of Basel. Miescher himself studied medicine at Basel but, feeling that his partial deafness ...
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Jan 1, 2017 · Johannes Friedrich Miescher – who usually was called Friedrich – was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father – Friedrich Miescher-His – was the Professor and Chair of the department of anatomy at the University of Basel, where his uncle, Wilhelm His, also had a faculty appointment. Friedrich was a shy but clever child with a talent for ...
