Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime, he penned a well-reviewed autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature.

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Who was born first?

• Erwin Chargaff and Felix Bloch were born the same year
• Erwin Chargaff and Robert Bacher were born the same year
• Erwin Chargaff and Carl David Anderson were born the same year
• Erwin Chargaff and Emilio G. Segrè were born the same year
• Erwin Chargaff and Nevill Francis Mott were born the same year

Timeline

1. Carl David AndersonSeptember 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991
2. Emilio G. SegrèFebruary 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989
3. Erwin Chargaff (this page)August 11, 1905 – June 20, 2002
4. Felix BlochOctober 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983
5. Nevill Francis MottSeptember 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996
6. Robert BacherAugust 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004

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