Friedrich Miescher

Johannes Friedrich Miescher (1844 – 1895) was a Swiss physician and biologist, as well as the first person to discover .
==Biography==
In 1869, at the young age of twenty-five, Miescher discovered DNA while studying leukocytes on pus-ridden bandages. After several experiments, he found a way to separate the nuclei from its cytoplasm, extracting a substance from the former. Miescher referred to the substance as nuclein, which became known as nucleic acid after 1874.Assassin's Creed: Initiates - Database: Discovering DNA
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Initiates 
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