Erwin Chargaff, an Austrian, was an educated biochemist whose work on “base pairing” and “complementarity” led to the discovery of DNA.

Foundations | DNA Base Pairs, and Erwin Chargaff Click for larger version (32K) Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the ...

Erwin Chargaff was one of a handful of scientists who expanded on Levene's work by uncovering additional details of the structure of DNA, thus further paving the way for Watson and Crick.

The Austrian biochemist, Erwin Chargaff, is famous for the two rules he discovered that now bear his name. At the time of this discovery, in 1950, the biggest problem in biology was understanding ...

(1950) Erwin Chargaff writes the rules of DNA . Chargaff was one of few scientists to build on Levene’s work, Pray writes. He discovered two constants about DNA, ...

Erwin Chargaff, Biochemist, 1905-2002. Erwin Chargaff, who has died aged 96, was one of the giants of the world of biochemistry. He did pioneering work in several fields so his absence from the ...

Erwin Chargaff, who died on June 20th aged 96, was one of the giants of the world of biochemistry. He did pioneering work in several fields; hence, his absence from the roll of Nobel prizewinners ...

In 1950, biochemist Erwin Chargaff found that the arrangement of nitrogen bases in DNA varied widely, but the amount of certain bases always occurred in a one-to-one ratio.

In 1946, biochemist Erwin Chargaff and clinician Randolph West reported that work on the process of blood clotting revealed what the scientists suspected were “a variety of minute breakdown ...

When the molecular-biology revolution began in the 1950s, biochemist Erwin Chargaff observed that the physicists, chemists and geneticists involved were “practising biochemistry without a ...