Levene discovered Ribose, the sugar component of DNA that he referred to at the time as d-ribose (Frixione & Ruiz- Zamarripa, 2019).
His discovery led to the name change from Thymus Nucleic Acid to Desoxy-Ribose Nucleic Acid (Frixione & Ruiz-Zamarripa, 2019).
Renamed Nuclein to Nucleic Acid after Albrecht Kossel's discovery that nucleic acids are the bases that make up what is now called DNA (Aliouche, 2019).
Observed leucocytes from the pus on fresh surgical bandages (Dahm, 2004).
Noticed a substance precipitated when an acid was added to the solution. He called his substance Nuclein (Dahm, 2004).
Due to the presence inside the nucleus, Miescher called it Nuclein (Dahm, 2004).
FRIEDRICH MIESCHER
I shall call it Nuclein!
Aliouche, H. (May 1, 2019). History of DNA research: Scientific pioneers & their discoveries. News Medical. Retrieved from https://www.news-medical.net/life-sciences/History-of-DNA-Research-Scientific-Pioneers-Their-Discoveries.aspx
Dahm, R. (2004). Friedrick Miescher and the discovery of DNA. Developmental Biology. 278, 274-288.
Frixione, E., & Ruiz-Zamarripa, L. (2019). The “scientific catastrophe” in nucleic acids research that boosted molecular biology. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294, 2249-2255.
1953
Watson and Crick
1929
Phoebus Levene
1908
Phoebus Levene
1889
Richard Altmann
1869
Friedrich Miescher
References
"Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid"
"Desoxy-Ribsose Nucleic Acid"
"Thymus Nucleic Acid"
"Nucleic Acid"
"Nuclein"
How the term "Dexyribose Nucleic Acid" came to be
The Untold History of DNA
