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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erwin Chargaff has received more than 710,938 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Erwin Chargaff is the 289th most popular chemist (down from 191st in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 132nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Erwin Chargaff ranks 289 out of 602. Before him are Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Thomas Midgley Jr., Rasmus Bartholin, John Pople, and John Polanyi. After him are Ben Feringa, Alexander Butlerov, Carl Gustaf Mosander, Richard R. Schrock, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, and André-Louis Debierne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Erwin Chargaff ranks 72. Before him are Sada Abe, Wolfram Sievers, Pedro Petrone, Clara Bow, Gareth Jones, and Guy Mollet. After him are Federica Montseny, Takeo Fukuda, André Jolivet, Chen Yun, Attila József, and Paul Nizan. Among people deceased in 2002, Erwin Chargaff ranks 64. Before him are Agatha Barbara, John Frankenheimer, Joe Strummer, Chico Xavier, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Abba Eban. After him are Joaquín Balaguer, Cyrus Vance, Roberto Matta, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Peggy Lee, and John Entwistle.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Erwin Chargaff ranks 207 out of 1,365. Before him are Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Olga Khokhlova (1891), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Michael of Chernigov (1185), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), and Natalia Sedova (1882). After him are Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Yaakov Dori (1899), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), and Jarosław Dąbrowski (1836).

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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), Jan Szczepanik (1872), and Ivan Horbachevsky (1854).

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