Talk:Proteomics/Protein Separations - Centrifugation/History of the Centrifuge

Slight type that needs to be corrected on svedberg picture. -Jfb4497

This account seems to contain some incorrect statements. As far as I've been able to find, centrifuges have been used since the mid 1800s, not the mid 1400s. Moreover, Friedrich Miescher did not use a centrifuge to isolate nucleic acids. See the following excerpt on the work of Miescher from "DNA pioneers and their legacy" quoted on http://www.fmi.ch/members/marilyn.vaccaro/ewww/dna.pioneer.excerpt.htm

"After filtration to get rid of tissue fibers, the cells were left to sediment to the bottom of the beaker; laboratory centrifuges were nonexistent in those days. When examined in the microscope, the leucocytes seemed intact and showed no sign of damage."

-Lvzon