Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (born 1905)

Erwin Chargaff

American biochemist (1905–2002)

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:…