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Nov 21 2024

Erwin Chargaff, a biochemist at Columbia University, announces the "Chargaff Ratios.”

This work proves critical to the 1953 Nobel Prize-winning description of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson and Francis Crick that describes the structure of DNA. Chargaff began …

Nov 21 2024

The Foundation launches a 12-year program in area studies, designed to promote research leading to “increased understanding of one culture by members of another.”

Universities in the US, Canada, Great Britain, France, Turkey, Germany, India and Japan receive grants.

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