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Apr 16, 1920 Sande, Vestfold, Norway Died on 15 Mar 1983 (aged 62)
Norwegian biologist and professor
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About Sven Furberg
- 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 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.
