Friedrich Miescher

Johannes Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844 – 26 August 1895) was a Swiss physician and biologist. He discovered nucleic acid in 1869. He also discovered protamine. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, 2005, p. 500.

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