User:Deyyaz/Academia portal trial/Did you know/4

• ... that before the Hershey–Chase experiment confirmed the role of DNA, scientists believed that genes were carried by proteins?

• ... that John R. Isbell was the primary contributor to the mathematical theory of uniform spaces?

• ... that in 2003 the German author Dieter Schenk became an honorary citizen of Gdańsk after his work led a German court to overturn a World War II ruling on the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig?

• ... that Austrian American biochemist Oskar Baudisch, whose study of trace elements in aqueous solutions led to his discovery of the Baudisch reaction, died by drowning?

• ... that former Washington Times editor James R. Whelan claims he was dismissed from the paper after control of it was "seized" by leaders of the Unification Church?