Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who formulated Chargaff's rules of DNA base composition, a key step toward the double-helix model.
1905, Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) — 2002, New York City, United States
Austria · United States
Erwin Chargaff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biochemist who formulated Chargaff's rules of DNA base composition, a key step toward the double-helix model.
Chargaff was a biochemist whose analysis established 'Chargaff's rules' — that in DNA the amount of adenine equals thymine and guanine equals cytosine — a key clue that guided Watson and Crick to the double-helix model. He was born into a Jewish family in Czernowitz and emigrated to the United States, working for decades at Columbia University.
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Biochemist who formulated Chargaff's rules of DNA base composition, a key step toward the double-helix model.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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