Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (FRS)

• Friedrich Meischer - originally discovered nucleic acids in 1868
• Oswald Avery and his colleagues - proved that DNA contained information by experimenting with bacteria in 1943
• Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

First, Marie Skłodowska Curie won in 1903 for her studies of radioactivity. She shared the prize with her husband, Pierre Curie, and with the other discoverer of radioactivity, Henri Bequerel.

Originally, the Nobel committee had only selected Pierre Curie — but he refused t...

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal: A founding father of neuroscience, he drew attention to the sense of smell as an exemplary model to learn how the brain makes sense of the world. He also believed that understanding smell would grant us better insight into other sensory systems
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