Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff | |
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| Born | 11 August 1905 |
| Died | 20 June 2002 (aged 96) Manhattan, New York City, United States |
| Nationality | American (since 1940) |
| Education | Maximiliansgymnasium, Vienna College of Technology (1924–1928) |
| Known for | Chargaff's rules |
| Spouse |
Vera Broido
(m. 1928; died 1995) |
| Children | Thomas Chargaff |
| Awards | Pasteur Medal (1949), National Medal of Science (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Yale University (1925–1930), University of Berlin (1930–1933), Pasteur Institute (1933–1934), Columbia University (1935–1974), Roosevelt Hospital (1974–1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Fritz Feigl |
| Doctoral students | Seymour S. Cohen, Boris Magasanik |
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Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime, he penned a well-reviewed autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules, called Chargaff's rules, which helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.