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Erwin Chargaff (11
August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born
American biochemist, writer, and
professor of
biochemistry at
Columbia University...
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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...
- Wilson, and base-pairing
chemical and
biochemical information by
Erwin Chargaff.
Before this,
Linus Pauling—who had
already accurately characterised the...
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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,...
- was not
publicly accepted either by
Crick or Wilkins. Furthermore,
Erwin Chargaff also
printed a
rather "unsympathetic review" of Watson's book in the 29...
- 1919 as a
result of his
biochemical experiments on yeast. In 1950,
Erwin Chargaff expanded on the work of
Levene and
elucidated a few
critical properties...
- from others, such as Alec
Stokes and
Herbert Wilson. In addition,
Erwin Chargaff,
Oswald Avery, and
Rosalind Franklin (whose key DNA x-ray crystallography...
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Avery may have
isolated the gene
itself as pure DNA.
Biochemist Erwin Chargaff,
geneticist H. J.
Muller and
others praised the
result as establishing...
- 1952, when
Erwin Chargaff visited Cambridge and
inspired Crick with a
description of
experiments Chargaff had
published in 1947.
Chargaff had
observed that...
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Another key to
finding the
correct structure of DNA was the so-called
Chargaff ratios,
experimentally determined ratios of the
nucleotide subunits of...
