Double Helix Discovery

William Astbury

Oswald Avery

Francis Crick

Erwin Chargaff

Max Delbrück

Jerry Donohue

Rosalind Franklin

Raymond Gosling

Phoebus Levene

Linus Pauling

Sir John Randall

Erwin Schrödinger

Alec Stokes

James Watson

Maurice Wilkins

Herbert Wilson

Jerry Donohue (June 12, 1920 — February 13, 1985) was a theoretical and physical chemist, who is best remembered for steering James D. Watson and Francis Crick towards the correct structure of DNA with some crucial information. Image File history File links Dna-split2. ... The Discovery of the DNA Double Helix Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. ... The Discovery of the DNA Double Helix Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid by James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick. ... William Astbury (1898-1961) was an English biochemist who made X-ray diffraction studies of nucleic acid in 1937. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the four co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. ... Erwin Chargaff (August 11, 1905 – June 20, 2002) was an Austrian biochemist. ... Max Delbrück (September 4, 1906 - March 9, 1981) was a German biologist. ... Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British physical chemist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. ... The joke funeral card in the names of Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling Raymond Gosling is a distinguished scientist who worked with both Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at Kings College London in deducing the structure of DNA. He was born in 1926 and attended school in Wembley. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist, widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. ... Sir John Randall Sir John Randall (March 23, 1905 – June 16, 1984) was a British physicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of the centimetre radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. ... Erwin Schrödinger, as depicted on the former Austrian 1000 Schilling bank note. ... Alec Stokes (Alexander Rawson Stokes, June 27, 1919–February 5, 2003) was one of the key contributors in the original DNA research team at Kings College London. ... Professor James Dewey Watson KBE(Hon) ForMemRS (born April 6, 1928) is one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Professor Herbert Wilson (1929 —) is a physicist, who was one of the original team who worked on the structure of DNA at Kings College London. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Professor James Dewey Watson KBE(Hon) ForMemRS (born April 6, 1928) is one of the four discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004) was an English physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the four co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. ... The general structure of a section of DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the biological development of a cellular form of life or a virus. ...

Jerry Donohue was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and studied for his first two degress at Dartmouth College. He worked on his PhD under Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, staying there until 1952. Sheboygans downtown along N. 8th St. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist, widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ...

Throughout his life Donohue specialized in crystal structures and analysis, specifically of molecules relating to biology and hydrogen-bonding. In 1952, Donohue was given a grant to study at Cambridge University and shared an office with Francis Crick and James D. Watson. In his work to determine the structure of DNA, Watson had been using structure for guanine from a monograph by James N. Davidson. Davidson had depicted these bases in the enol configuration and Watson used this structure in an unsuccessful 'like-with-like' pairing of the bases. Donohue informed Watson that the published structure was just a guess and that the keto structure was more likely. Within a few days, Watson and Crick were able to build their famous model for DNA. Snapshot from a simulation of liquid water. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Guanine is one of the five main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA; the others being adenine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. ... Enol (or, more officially, but less commonly: alkenol) is an alkene with hydroxyl group on one of the carbon atoms of the double bond. ... Keto can refer to: Oxo or Ketone Ceto, a lava mermaid in Greek mythology This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

In their famous article by Watson and Crick in Nature that proposed the structure of DNA, the following acknowledgement to Donohue appears: "We are much indebted to Dr. Jerry Donohue for constant advice and criticism, especially on interatomic distances".

After Cambridge Donohue became Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California where he continued to specialize in hydrogen-bonding. In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, retiring through ill-health in 1985. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]), located in the downtown district of Los Angeles, California, was founded in 1880, making it Californias oldest private research university. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the moniker used by the university itself [2]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...

He married Patricia Schreier. They had a son and a daughter.

External links

• Link to his papers and biography