!!!Chargaff, Erwin

Chargaff, Erwin, b. Chernovtsy (Ukraine), Aug. 11, 1905, 
chemist, author. Studied in Vienna; 1928-1930 scholarship student at 
Yale University; from 1930 assistant professor of chemistry at the 
University of Berlin. Emigrated to Paris in 1933 and then to New York 
in 1935; from 1952 professor at Columbia University, 1970-1974 
Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry there. Since 1977 numerous 
volumes of his essays have been published. Together with J. D. 
Watson and F. Crick, regarded as one of the pioneers in the field of 
research into the structure of DNS; proved that the genetic code 
consists of a series of complementary nucleic acids. Awarded the 
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1994.

!Publications
The Nucleic Acids, 3 vols., 1955-1960 (ed.); Essays 
on Nucleic Acids, 1963; Heraclitean Fire, 1978 (Das Feuer des 
Heraklit, 1979; autobiography); Kritik der Zukunft, 1983; Abscheu vor 
der Weltgeschichte, 1984; Armes Amerika - arme Welt, 1994; Aussichten 
vom 13. Stock, 1998; Ernste Fragen, 2000.

!Literature
D. Weber, Wider den Genrausch, 1999.


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