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, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school.[1] He wrote a well-reviewed[2][3] autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature.[4]
^Wright, Pearce (2 July 2002). "Erwin Chargaff: Disillusioned biochemist who pioneered our understanding of DNA". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
^Hecht F (1979). "Hecht F. Heraclitean fire. Sketches from a life before nature". American Journal of Human Genetics. 31 (6): 759.
^Edsall JT (1979). "Heraclitean fire. Sketches from a life before nature". Isis. 70 (2): 276–277. doi:10.1086/352204.
^Chargaff, Erwin (1978). Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature. Rockefeller University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-874-70029-9.
ErwinChargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States...
constituents of plants and for their separation and identification. ErwinChargaff credits in Weintraub's history of the man the 1944 article by Consden...
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Herbert Wilson, and base-pairing chemical and biochemical information by ErwinChargaff. Before this, Linus Pauling—who had already accurately characterised...
(Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment). ErwinChargaff developed and published observations now known as Chargaff's rules, stating that in DNA from any species...
1952, when ErwinChargaff visited Cambridge and inspired Crick with a description of experiments Chargaff had published in 1947. Chargaff had observed...
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in-depth analyses by Peter Medawar, Robert K. Merton, and Andre Lwoff. ErwinChargaff declined permission to reprint his unsympathetic review from the March...
influenced ErwinChargaff, who upon reading those words dedicated his work to identify a "chemistry of heredity" which he later elucidated in Chargaff's rules...
Paul Feyerabend called for a "democratization of science". Biochemist ErwinChargaff advocated a return to science by nature-loving amateurs in the tradition...
amount of adenine is equal to thymine. Discovered by Austrian chemist ErwinChargaff. Charles's law, one of the gas laws in physics, states that at constant...
stories and novels, together with radio dramas and teleplays, too. ErwinChargaff showed his appreciation of Walter Kappacher's style by saying "He writes...
values were assumed to be the result of experimental error. However, ErwinChargaff showed that the four frequencies were not equal, with variations consistent...
Mirsky's efforts were successful. Avery did not win the prize, despite ErwinChargaff assertion that Avery's work was worth two Nobel Prizes. Mirsky became...
cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit by ErwinChargaff to England, in 1952, reinforced the salience of this important fact...
contained repeating phosphate and deoxyribose sugar groups. The biochemist ErwinChargaff found that adenine and thymine always paired while cytosine and guanine...
"Studies on the structure of ribonucleic acids" by Boris Magasanik and ErwinChargaff (1951), part of the evidence on which Watson and Crick's model of the...
Snyder DNA structure: Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, ErwinChargaff, Oswald Avery Lymphatic system: Olof Rudbeck, Thomas Bartholin Blood...
Hodgkin discovered the three-dimensional structure of penicillin. 1948 – ErwinChargaff showed that in DNA the number of guanine units equals the number of...
of adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Before the later work of ErwinChargaff, it was widely thought that DNA was organized into repeating tetranucleotides...
1973—Daniel I. Arnon, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. 1974—Britton Chance, ErwinChargaff, James V. Neel, James A. Shannon 1975—Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy,...
Chlorella and carbon dioxide labeled with carbon-14 (14CO2) (1945–1954). ErwinChargaff disproves the "tetranucleoide theory" of DNA structure and determines...
previously denied a share of the Nobel. However, he had to admit that ErwinChargaff, whose two rules were instrumental in the discovery of DNA's structure...
of transformation appears to be repair of genomic damage. In 1950, ErwinChargaff derived rules that offered evidence of DNA being the genetic material...
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