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.

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