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  1. Mar 27, 2024 · 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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  2. Feb 15, 2005 · 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
  3. Apr 6, 2020 · Johann Friedrich Miescher was born in 1844 in Basel, Switzerland. Both his uncle, Wilhelm His, and his father, Friedrich Miescher senior, were famous physicians who taught at the University of Basel. After completing his medical studies, Miescher joined Felix Hoppe-Seyler’s renown “Schlosslaboratorium” in Tübingen, Germany.

    • Ehud Lamm, Oren Harman, Sophie Juliane Veigl
    • 2020
  4. 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 ...

  5. Jun 10, 2020 · In 1869, Johann Friedrich Miescher discovered a new substance in the nucleus of living cells. The substance, which he called nuclein, is now known as DNA, yet both Miescher’s name and his theoretical ideas about nuclein are all but forgotten. This paper traces the trajectory of Miescher’s reception in the historiography of genetics. To his critics, Miescher was a “contaminator,” whose ...

    • Sophie Juliane Veigl, Oren Harman, Ehud Lamm
    • 2020
  6. Sep 28, 2007 · In the winter of 1868/9 the young Swiss doctor Friedrich Miescher, working in the laboratory of Felix Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, performed experiments on the chemical composition of leukocytes that lead to the discovery of DNA. In his experiments, Miescher noticed a precipitate of an unknown substance, which he characterised further. Its properties during the isolation ...

  7. Sep 15, 2023 · In the annals of scientific history, the name Friedrich Miescher stands tall as a pioneer whose groundbreaking work paved the way for our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of life – nucleic acids. Miescher's fascination with the human body and its composition drove him to study medicine at the University of Basel.

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