10 Interesting Fact About Famous geneticists

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• Gregor Mendel, an Austrian biologist and monk, is considered as a modern genetic father because of the legal discovery of inheritance in peas plants.
• Francis Crick, a British biolog, along with James Watson managed to find a DNA structure in the form of a double helical in 1953.
• Rosalind Franklin, a British physicist and crystalographer, plays an important role in the discovery of DNA structures by making X-ray photos from DNA crystals.
• Barbara McClintock, a genetician of the United States, discovered a transposon or a stepping gene that could move in chromosomes in corn plants.
• James Watson, a United States biolog, received a Nobeling award in physiology or medical together with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for the discovery of DNA structures.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, a United States Zoolog, found that certain genes are related to certain chromosomes in fruit flies.
• Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedia physicist, helped find the concept of nuclear reactions and core energy in 1938 with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann.
• Joshua Lederberg, a US biolog, found that bacteria can exchange genes through the conjugation process.
• Edward Tatum, a US biologist, found that each gene has a special influence on cell metabolism through his studies in the neurospores of crassa.
• George Beadle, a United States biologist, received a Nobeling award in physiology or medicine in 1958 together with Edward Tatum for the discovery that genes regulate cell metabolism.