| Year |
Researcher |
Contribution/Discovery |
| 1865 |
Mendel |
Mendelian laws |
| 1900 |
Correns, DeVries, Tschermak |
Rediscovery of Mendelian laws |
| 1900 |
Landsteiner |
ABO blood group system |
| 1908 |
Hardy & Weinburg |
Hardy-Weinburg law |
| 1910-1920 |
Morgan |
Chromosome mapping in fruit flies
|
| 1941 |
Beadle & Tatum |
One gene, one enzyme |
| 1942 |
Ford |
Genetic polymorphism |
| 1949 |
Barr & Bertram |
Sex chromatin |
| 1953 |
Watson & Crick |
Structure of DNA |
| 1961 |
Lyon |
X-chromosome inactivation |
| 1968-1970 |
Linn, Arber & Smith |
Restriction endonucleases (RE) |
| 1971-1975 |
Nathans & Smith |
DNA characterization with RE |
| 1975 |
Southern |
DNA blotting |
| 1975-1977 |
Sanger & Gilbert |
DNA sequencing |
| 1976 |
Tonegawa, et al. |
Somatic recombination in immunoglobulin genes |
| 1984 |
Bishop & Varmus |
Oncogenes |
| 1984 |
Gitschier, Toole, et al. |
Cloning of Factor VIII gene |
| 1984-1985 |
Mullis, Saiki, et al. |
Polymerase chain reaction |
| 1989 |
Collins, Riordan, Tsui, et al. |
Isolation of cystic fibrosis gene |
| 1990 |
Yamamoto, et al. |
Cloning of the ABO genes |
Historical Perspective