Popular Scientists and their Contribution

  • Charles Darwin wrote 'origin of species' and proposed ' theory of natural selection'.
  • Mendel (1866) proposed law of inheritance and called father of genetics .
  • NE Borlaug is called father of green revolution in world.
  • MS Swaminathan is called father of green revolution in India.
  • Anand Mohan Chakraborty developed superbug by genetic engineering.
  • Kohler and Milstein  discovered hybridoma technology.
  • Alec Zaffrey discovered DNA fingerprinting.
  • Robert Hooke discovered cell and wrote book Micrographic .
  • Weisman proposed theory of germplasm.
  • Hugo de Vries proposed mutation theory.
  • Watson and Crick proposed double helical model of DNA.
  • Har Govind Khurana artificially synthesized gene.
  • Katy Mullis invented polymerase chain reaction.
  • Whittaker classified living organisms into five Kingdoms - Monera, protista, fungi, plantar and animalistic.
  • WM Stanley crystalibed TMV.
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