# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-chargaff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:27.140Z

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name: "Erwin Chargaff"
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description: "Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime, he penned a well-reviewed autobiography, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules, called Chargaff's rules, which helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA."
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birthDate: "1905-08-11"
deathDate: "2002-06-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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