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==Biochemistry and other sciences==
==Biochemistry and other sciences==
[[Molecular biology]], a term first used in 1950, is used to describe the area of research, closely related to and often overlapping biochemistry, conducted by biologists whose approach to and interest in [[biology]] are principally at the molecular level of organization. The related field of [[biophysics]] brings to [[biology]] the techniques and attitudes of the [[physicist]]. [[Cell biology]] is concerned with the organization and functioning of the individual [[cell]] and depends greatly on biochemical techniques. As the study of life forms demonstrated similar or even identical processes occurring in widely divergent [[species]], it has taken the [[biochemist]] to unravel the underlying chemical basis for these phenomena.
[[Molecular biology]], a term first used in 1950, is used to describe the area of research, closely related to and often overlapping biochemistry, conducted by biologists whose approach to and interest in [[biology]] are principally at the molecular level of organization. The related field of [[biophysics]] brings to [[biology]] the techniques and attitudes of the [[physicist]]. [[Cell biology]] is concerned with the organization and functioning of the individual [[cell]] and depends greatly on biochemical techniques. As the study of life forms demonstrated similar or even identical processes occurring in widely divergent [[species]], it has taken the [[biochemist]] to unravel the underlying chemical basis for these phenomena.
==Timeline of Biochemistry Discoveries==
The chief discoveries of Biochemistry started taking place in the early 1800's.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Date
! Event
|- valign="TOP"
| align="RIGHT" nowrap | 1828
| Friedrich Wöhler published a paper about the synthesis of urea, proving that organic compounds can be created artificially.
|- valign="TOP"
| align="RIGHT" nowrap | 1833
| Anselme Payen made the discovery of the first enzyme, diastase (today called amylase).
|- valign="TOP"
| align="RIGHT" nowrap | 1896
| Eduard Buchner contributed the first demonstration of a complex biochemical process outside of a cell: alcoholic fermentation in cell extracts of yeast.
|- valign="TOP"
| align="RIGHT" nowrap | 1953
| James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of the DNA molecule.
|}
==See Also==
==See Also==