List of Famous people with last name Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff

First Name Erwin

Last Name Chargaff

Born on August 11, 1905

Died on June 20, 2002 (aged 96)

Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew, who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules, called Chargaff's rules, that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

    index: 1x 0.019273996353149s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.014811992645264s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.014772176742554s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0081720352172852s
router_page: 1x 0.0037050247192383s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0033597946166992s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0032718181610107s
headline: 2x 0.0030279159545898s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0028989315032959s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00041699409484863s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00039815902709961s
head-facts: 1x 0.0003659725189209s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.9073486328125E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.6212463378906E-5s
related: 1x 3.0994415283203E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-08-28 21:01:08)  -----