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Erwin Chargaff

1905 - 2002

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Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erwin Chargaff is the 339th most popular chemist (down from 289th in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 207th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Erwin Chargaff ranks 339 out of 602. Before him are François-Marie Raoult, Martin Lowry, Roderick MacKinnon, Nils Gabriel Sefström, Clemens Winkler, and Kristian Birkeland. After him are Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, Morten P. Meldal, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, and C. H. D. Buys Ballot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Erwin Chargaff ranks 94. Before him are Erich Naumann, Yen Chia-kan, Dhyan Chand, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Eugen Fink, and James J. Braddock. After him are Joseph Kosma, Jacinto Quincoces, Paul Nizan, Franjo Šeper, Mir Sultan Khan, and Nathan Homer Knorr. Among people deceased in 2002, Erwin Chargaff ranks 84. Before him are George Roy Hill, Chico Xavier, Peggy Lee, John Entwistle, Ole-Johan Dahl, and Marina Berti. After him are François Périer, Thomas Gordon, Dhirubhai Ambani, Juan Antonio Bardem, Lisa Lopes, and Alexander Lebed.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Erwin Chargaff ranks 264 out of 1,365. Before him are Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Muhammad Asad (1900), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), and Sergey Gorshkov (1910). After him are Valerii Zaluzhnyi (1973), Igor Markevitch (1912), Meir Dagan (1945), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), David Burliuk (1882), and Yaroslav Stetsko (1912).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ukraine

Among chemists born in Ukraine, Erwin Chargaff ranks 2. Before him are Roald Hoffmann (1937). After him are Jacques Bergier (1912), Ivan Horbachevsky (1854), and Jan Szczepanik (1872).

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