Erwin Chargaff 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. He wrote a well-reviewed... Wikipedia
Born: August 11, 1905, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Died: June 20, 2002 (age 96 years), Manhattan, New York, NY
Known for: Chargaff's rules
Education: Vienna University of Technology (1924–1928) and Gymnasium Wasagasse
Parents: Hermann Chargaff and Rosa Silberstein Chargaff
Awards: Pasteur Medal (1949), National Medal of Science (1974)
Doctoral students: Seymour S. Cohen, Boris Magasanik