Erwin Chargaff

He also believed that in a world that functions as a complex system of interdependency and interconnectedness genetic engineering of life will inevitably have unforeseen consequences. [citation needed]
After Francis Crick James Watson and Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize for their work on discovering the double helix of DNA Chargaff withdrew from his lab and wrote to scientists all over the world about his exclusion. Boston Basel Stuttgart: Birkhäuser 1986


See also
Nobel Prize controversies.

Through careful experimentation Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA. Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austrian biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a Professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Chargaff had one son Thomas with his wife Vera Broido whom he married in 1928.