Nobel Prizes
The following scientists were recognized for their contributions to chromatin research with Nobel Prizes:
| Year | Who | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Albrecht Kossel (University of Heidelberg) | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the five nuclear bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, and uracil. |
| 1933 | Thomas Hunt Morgan (California Institute of Technology) | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of the role played by the gene and chromosome in heredity, based on his studies of the white-eyed mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila. |
| 1962 | Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Harvard University and London University respectively) | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of the double helix structure of DNA and its significance for information transfer in living material. |
| 1982 | Aaron Klug (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) | Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes" |
| 1993 | Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp | Nobel Prize in Physiology "for their independent discoveries of split genes," in which DNA sections called exons express proteins, and are interrupted by DNA sections called introns, which do not express proteins. |
| 2006 | Roger Kornberg (Stanford University) | Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the mechanism by which DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA. |
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