Word: nucleic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he had practically no training. After more than ten years of impatient plodding, shaggy-thatched Phoebus Levene made a name for himself, and by 1907 he was an outstanding member of the Institute. One of his most famous contributions is his detailed picture of the chemical structure of nucleic acids. Nuclei acids are constituents of cell nuclei and their chromosomes, tiny inheritance carriers which exist in the dividing cells of plants and animals. He is also world renowned for his work in vitamins, hormones, amino-acids...