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Friedrich Miescher

1844 - 1895

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Johannes Friedrich Miescher (13 August 1844 – 26 August 1895) was a Swiss physician and biologist. He was the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid in 1869. Miescher also identified protamine and made several other discoveries. Miescher had isolated various phosphate-rich chemicals, which he called nuclein (now nucleic acids), from the nuclei of white blood cells in Felix Hoppe-Seyler's laboratory at the University of Tübingen, Germany, paving the way for the identification of DNA as the carrier of inheritance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Miescher is the 176th most popular physician (down from 114th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 79th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Physician.

Friedrich Miescher is most famous for his discovery of nucleic acids in 1869.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Friedrich Miescher ranks 176 out of 726. Before him are Severo Ochoa, Andrew Schally, Merit-Ptah, Oswald Avery, Kitasato Shibasaburō, and Bernardo Houssay. After him are Robert Knox, August von Wassermann, Engelbert Kaempfer, Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph Calasanz, and David H. Hubel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Friedrich Miescher ranks 29. Before him are Muhammad Ahmad, Charles-Marie Widor, Abdur Rahman Khan, Julius Wellhausen, Adolf Engler, and Charles-Émile Reynaud. After him are Sophia Tolstaya, Henry J. Heinz, Karl Lueger, George W. De Long, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Saitō Hajime. Among people deceased in 1895, Friedrich Miescher ranks 20. Before him are Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, John Russell Hind, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Charles Frederick Worth, Johann Josef Loschmidt, and Nikolai Leskov. After him are Arthur Cayley, Frederick Douglass, James Dwight Dana, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Carl Ludwig, and Lord Randolph Churchill.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 119 out of 1,015. Before him are Alexander Agassiz (1835), Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821), César Ritz (1850), Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747), Charles Bonnet (1720), and Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773). After him are Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Gottfried Keller (1819), Paul Guldin (1577), Didier Queloz (1966), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Friedrich Miescher ranks 10. Before him are Eugen Bleuler (1857), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), and Albrecht von Haller (1708). After him are Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Wilhelm His Sr. (1831), Thomas Erastus (1524), and Paolo Macchiarini (1958).

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