David Shugar
David Shugar · Science & Medicine
Biophysicist known for research on nucleic acids and antiviral compounds
1915, Józefów, Poland — 2015, Warsaw, Poland
Poland · Canada
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David Shugar was a biophysicist, born in Poland and raised in Canada, who founded a Polish school of molecular biophysics and co-authored the first book on the photochemistry of nucleic acids (1964), with wide-ranging work on nucleic acids, mutagenesis and antiviral compounds. Born to observant Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents, he was Jewish.
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Biophysicist known for research on nucleic acids and antiviral compounds
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