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
Erwin Chargaff quotes about
practice molecular-biology biochemistry
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
science reality sometimes
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
gold-teeth enzymes crafts
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.
fields common scientist
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.
science men way
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.