Sven Furberg
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Born
16 April 1920
Sven Verner Furberg
16 April 1920
Sande, Vestfold, Norway
Died15 March 1983 (aged 62)
Oslo, Norway
Almamater
- Birkbeck College London (PhD)
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| Born | Sven Verner Furberg 16 April 1920 Sande, Vestfold, Norway |
| Died | 15 March 1983 (aged 62) Oslo, Norway |
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| Known for | [2] The Structure of cytidine |
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| Thesis | An X-ray Study of Some Nucleosides and Nucleotides. (1949) |
Sven Verner Furberg (16 April 1920 – 15 March 1983) was a Norwegian chemist, biologist, and crystallographer who first proposed a helical structure for DNA. Furberg suggested a single-chain helical structure in 1949, which he referred to as a "zig-zag" chain.[2][3] In 1952, his structure of DNA was published in the journal Acta Chemica Scandinavica.[4] In this paper, he deduced that DNA forms a helix from the crystal structure and density value of nucleosides and other related molecules.[4] A year later (in 1953), this paper was cited by James Watson and Francis Crick in Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.[5]
