[Cz-L] A famous Czernowitzer

One of the two streets, on which we at present, would be allowed
to place a memorial plaque to Traian Popovici, already has a plaque
to a famous Czernowitzer. He is Nobel prize winner Erwin Chargaff

Here some excerpts about him from Wikipedia:

> Chargaff was born in Czernowitz on August 11, 1905, Bukowina,
> Austria, which is now Chernovtsy , Ukraine.[1] Chargaff had a
> difficult time deciding whether he would pursue science or philology
> as a career: he had a natural gift for languages, and over the course
> of his life he would learn 15. His American colleagues recalled that
> he could speak English better than they could.[1]
>
> He had published 30 papers by the time he reached 30 years of age.[1]
 
> Honors awarded to him include the Pasteur Medal (1949) and the
> National Medal of Science (1974).

Mimi
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