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)

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'