Chargaff

British  

/ ˈʃɑːɡæf /

noun

1. Erwin. 1905–2002, US biochemist, born in Austria, noted esp for his work on DNA

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Example Sentences

In 1950, the Austrian-born biochemist Erwin Chargaff, working at Columbia University in New York, had found a peculiar pattern.

From Literature

Whenever Chargaff digested DNA and analyzed the base composition, he always found that the A and the T were present in nearly identical proportion, as were the G and the C. Something, mysteriously, had paired A to T and G to C, as if these chemicals were congenitally linked.

From Literature

And the importance of Chargaff’s rules became obvious in retrospect—A and T, and G and C, had to be present in identical amounts because they were always complementary: they were the two mutually opposing teeth in the zipper.

From Literature

This explained biochemist Erwin Chargaff’s discovery that the DNA of any species has the same amount of guanine as of cytosine, and of adenine as of thymine6.

From Nature

A call for seriousness, however, was not to my liking—especially when John had just shown Francis and me a letter from Chargaff in which we were mentioned.

From Literature