@eest9 @davidrevoy If it can help: *Erwin* Chargaff...

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*Erwin* Chargaff was the one who made the most important contributions to the discovery of DNA (coincidentally, confirming Schrödinger's hypotesis that the genetic information must be stored as an aperiodic crystal). Chargaff was overshadowed by Watson, Crick and others because he was very cautious about genetics, he compared genetic engineering to nuclear physics and the atomic bomb: we shouldn't mess with Nature at its very hearth.

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Alex L 🕊 🇵🇸

@eest9 @davidrevoy

A great scientist with strong ethics. Still today, most of his books are only available in German, just to stress how much he was boycotted, compared to the glorified Watson and Crick.

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26 Nov 2023 at 20:16 | Open on mastodon.social

E. Ernst eest9 Steinhammer

@alxlg Doesn't really help since I'm not named after Erwin Chargaff 😅 But it's good to know, that there are still probably good Erwins out there 😂 @davidrevoy

26 Nov 2023 at 20:20 | Open on chaos.social

kristen rapp

@eest9 @alxlg @davidrevoy why not tell people you were named for Steve Irwin? if anyone points out it's a different spelling, just look horrified and tell them you need to leave to call your parents immediately

26 Nov 2023 at 22:16 | Open on mastodon.social