Erwin Chargaff — Austrian Scientist born on August 11, 1905, died on June 20, 2002
Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA... (wikipedia)