Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaff
Erwin Chargaffwas an Austro-Hungarian biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 August 1905
CountryAustria
real men wind
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.
fashion men long
Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
thinking tanks process
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.
character successful science
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).
men animal cells
If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.