Biotech milestones
Submitted by ipsita on Fri, 1994-04-15 00:00
1828: Friedrich Wohler shows how artificial urea can be made
1856: William Perkins makes Mauveine, the first synthetic dye
1872: Louis Pasteur identifies the microbial origins of fermentation
1883: Emil Christian Hansen finds that wild yeast can destroy fermentation
1912: Chaim Weizmann discovers acetone and butanol and ends the search for synthetic rubber
1915: J B S Haldane describes ectogenesis
1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1953: James Watson and Francis Crick demystify the structure of DNA
1973:Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer trace the recombinant DNA
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