Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, Bucovinian Jew who emigrated to the United States...
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Chargaff's rules (given by Erwin Chargaff) state that in the DNA of any species and any organism, the amount of guanine should be equal to the amount...
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Double helix William Astbury Oswald Avery Florence Bell Lawrence Bragg Erwin Chargaff Francis Crick Michael Creeth Jerry Donohue Rosalind Franklin Raymond...
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constituents of plants and for their separation and identification. Erwin Chargaff credits in Weintraub's history of the man the 1944 article by Consden...
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Double helix William Astbury Oswald Avery Florence Bell Lawrence Bragg Erwin Chargaff Francis Crick Michael Creeth Jerry Donohue Rosalind Franklin Raymond...
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Herbert Wilson, and base-pairing chemical and biochemical information by Erwin Chargaff. Before this, Linus Pauling—who had already accurately characterised...
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(Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment). Erwin Chargaff developed and published observations now known as Chargaff's rules, stating that in DNA from any species...
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in-depth analyses by Peter Medawar, Robert K. Merton, and Andre Lwoff. Erwin Chargaff declined permission to reprint his unsympathetic review from the March...
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1952, when Erwin Chargaff visited Cambridge and inspired Crick with a description of experiments Chargaff had published in 1947. Chargaff had observed...
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implications—that Avery may have isolated the gene itself as pure DNA. Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, geneticist H. J. Muller and others praised the result as establishing...
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influenced Erwin Chargaff, who upon reading those words dedicated his work to identify a "chemistry of heredity" which he later elucidated in Chargaff's rules...
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cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit by Erwin Chargaff to England, in 1952, reinforced the salience of this important fact...
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Paul Feyerabend called for a "democratization of science". Biochemist Erwin Chargaff advocated a return to science by nature-loving amateurs in the tradition...
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amount of adenine is equal to thymine. Discovered by Austrian chemist Erwin Chargaff. Charles's law, one of the gas laws in physics, states that at constant...
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Chernivtsi Paul Celan (1920–1970), German-language poet and translator Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Jewish biochemist Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Jewish jurist...
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values were assumed to be the result of experimental error. However, Erwin Chargaff showed that the four frequencies were not equal, with variations consistent...
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contained repeating phosphate and deoxyribose sugar groups. The biochemist Erwin Chargaff found that adenine and thymine always paired while cytosine and guanine...
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of adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Before the later work of Erwin Chargaff, it was widely thought that DNA was organized into repeating tetranucleotides...
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was not publicly accepted either by Crick or Wilkins. Furthermore, Erwin Chargaff also printed a rather "unsympathetic review" of Watson's book in the...
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"Studies on the structure of ribonucleic acids" by Boris Magasanik and Erwin Chargaff (1951), part of the evidence on which Watson and Crick's model of the...
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1973—Daniel I. Arnon, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. 1974—Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff, James V. Neel, James A. Shannon 1975—Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy,...
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1985) 1902 – Christian de Castries, French general (d. 1991) 1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (d. 2002) 1905 – Ernst Jaakson...
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Double helix William Astbury Oswald Avery Florence Bell Lawrence Bragg Erwin Chargaff Francis Crick Michael Creeth Jerry Donohue Rosalind Franklin Raymond...
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2-aminoethylphosphate (Ca-AEP or Ca-2AEP) is a compound discovered by the biochemist Erwin Chargaff in 1941.[citation needed] It is the calcium salt of phosphorylethanolamine...
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previously denied a share of the Nobel. However, he had to admit that Erwin Chargaff, whose two rules were instrumental in the discovery of DNA's structure...
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from blood plasma were reported to have procoagulant properties by Erwin Chargaff and Randolph West in 1946. The platelet derivation and lipid-containing...
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Hodgkin discovered the three-dimensional structure of penicillin. 1948 – Erwin Chargaff showed that in DNA the number of guanine units equals the number of...
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of transformation appears to be repair of genomic damage. In 1950, Erwin Chargaff derived rules that offered evidence of DNA being the genetic material...
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Chlorella and carbon dioxide labeled with carbon-14 (14CO2) (1945–1954). Erwin Chargaff disproves the "tetranucleoide theory" of DNA structure and determines...
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Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902) 2002 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905) 2002 – Tinus Osendarp...
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