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Erwin Chargaff | |
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Biochemist | |
Specialty | Biochemistry |
Born | Aug.
11, 1905 |
Died | June 20, 2002 (at age 96) New York City, USA |
Nationality | Austrian-American |
Erwin Chargaff was an Austrian biochemist.
After the Nazis took power, he moved to the United States and joined the medical school at Columbia University as a biochemistry professor.
Erwin chargaff contribution to dna yearHe became a U.S. citizen in 1940.
Chargaff’s assiduousness in his experimentation produced rules that laid the groundwork for the eventual discovery of DNA’s structure: the double helix. To the surprise of many of his contemporaries, and to his own unhappiness, Chargaff was never named a Nobel laureate.
Early Life and Work
Chargaff was born on August 11, 1905, in Czernowitz in what is now Ukraine but was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After a conventional early education, he went to Vienna in 1924 to study chemistry, and remained there for four years. During this time, he e