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Friedrich Miescher
Swiss biochemist (1843-1895)
Johannes Friedrich Miescher | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1844-08-13)13 August 1844 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | 26 August 1895(1895-08-26) (aged 51) Davos, Switzerland |
| Education | University of Göttingen (M.D.
1868), University of Lepzig |
| Known for | 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.
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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 publish