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Thesis An X-ray Study of Some Nucleosides and Nucleotides. (1949) Notable awards Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence (1966) Alma mater Birkbeck, University of London (PhD) Institutions University of Oslo, University of Bergen, Universidad de Montevideo | ||
Sven Verner Furberg (16 April 1920 – 15 March 1983) was a Norwegian chemist, biologist and crystallographer who first proposed the helical structure of DNA. Furberg initially suggested this structure in 1949, which he referred to as a "zig-zag" chain. In 1952, his structure of DNA was published in the journal Acta Chemica Scandinavica. In this paper, he deduced that DNA forms a double helix from the crystal structure and density value of nucleosides and other related molecules. A year later, this paper was cited by James Watson and Francis Crick in Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.
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