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The Torch of Erwin Chargaff and the Fire of Heraklitus Devour Their Children
Author(s) -
Jaenicke Lothar
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3773(20021115)41:22<4213::aid-anie4213>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - obituary , skepticism , history , philosophy , classics , archaeology , epistemology
Concerned skepticism about the direction “his” science had taken dominated the last 30 years of the life of the biochemist Erwin Chargaff, who died on June 20 this year at the age of almost 97. This obituary is an eloquent account of the life of this faciscinating person who never forgot his European roots in spite of spending more than two thirds of his life in America.