The organic chemist Phoebus Levene isolated and discovered the structure of the individual units of deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). DNA and RNA consist of an acidic phosphate group, a nitrogenous base, and a sugar. Following Levene's...

Phoebus Aaron Theodor Levene made important contributions to the understanding of the nucleic acids. He identified the sugars in nucleic acid nucleotides and discovered the precise structure of individual nucleotides. Levene was born in Sager, Russia,...

1869-1940 A Russian-born American chemist who is best known for his pioneering studies in the area of nucleic acids. While he worked with a variety of compounds, his most important findings were the isolation of the sugars, d-ribose from the...

Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, M.D. (25 February,1869 — 6 September, 1940) was a biochemist who analyzed DNA and found that it contained adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, deoxyribose, and a phosphate group. He was born into a Jewish family as...

Levens, Green pose salary-cap dilemma Team might not keep both players By TOM SILVERSTEIN of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, January 29, 2001 Tampa, Fla. -- If the Green Bay Packers are going to make it back to the...

Phoebus as phoenix Before the second world war the electrical industry was dominated by Phoebus, a worldwide cartel of general electrical companies. Half a century later, some of its former members have rediscovered the virtues of alliance in the form of joint...