Sven Furberg

Sven Verner Furberg
Born	Sven Verner Furberg 16 April 1920 Sande, Vestfold, Norway
Died	15 March 1983(1983-03-15) (aged 62) Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Fields	Crystallography Molecular biology Chemistry
Institutions	University of Oslo University of Montevideo University of Bergen
Alma mater	Birkbeck College London (PhD) ^[1]
Thesis	An X-ray Study of Some Nucleosides and Nucleotides. (1949)
Known for	DNA structure^[1] ^[2] The Structure of cytidine
Notable awards	Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence (1966)

Sven Verner Furberg (16 April 1920 – 15 March 1983) was a Norwegian chemist, biologist and crystallographer who first proposed the helical structure of DNA.

References

1 2 http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4425
↑ http://actachemscand.org/pdf/acta_vol_06_p0634-0640.pdf

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