| Erwin Chargaff Born: 11-Aug-1905
Birthplace: Chernovtsy, Ukraine
Died: 20-Jun-2002
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Biologist, Chemist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Biochemist at Columbia University Biochemist Erwin Chargaff's experiments showed that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), not amino acids in the cell, is the carrier of genetic information. His work completely changed the study of biology and heredity, and provided the foundation for the work of Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins. Chargaff also conducted research into lipids (molecules which form fats), plant nucleotides, the metabolism of amino acids and inositol, and the enzymes that cause blood coagulation. In his later years, Chargaff became an outspoken critic against genetic engineering, which he described as "practicing biology without a license". Father: Hermann Chargaff (banker)
Mother: Rosa Silberstein Chargaff
Wife: Vera Broido Chargaff (b. 1907, m. 1928, one son)
Son: Thomas Chargaff
High School: Maximiliangynasium, Vienna, Austria
University: DSc Chemistry, University of Vienna (1928)
Scholar: Yale University (1928-30)
Teacher: Public Health, University of Berlin (1930-33)
Teacher: Pasteur Institute in Paris (1933-35)
Teacher: Biochemistry, Columbia University (1935-52)
Professor: Biochemistry, Columbia University (1952-74)
Pasteur Medal 1949
Carl Neuberg Medal 1958
Charles Leopold Mayer Prize 1963
Heineken Prize 1964
Gregor Mendel Medal 1973
National Medal of Science 1974
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Cancer Society
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences
Naturalized US Citizen 1940
Austrian Ancestry
Ukrainian Ancestry
Author of books:
The Nucleic Acids: Chemistry and Biology (1955)
Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature (1978, memoir)
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