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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

ERWIN CHARGAFF

Title: Professor of Biochemistry
Affiliation:   Columbia University
    New York, New YorkUSA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   2002
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Award Discipline:   Biological Sciences
Award Year:   1974
Citation:   "For fundamental chemical and biological studies establishing the basis for modern concepts of the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the genetic role of nucleic acids."
    1974 Medal presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on September 18, 1975.

 

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