Brunó Ferenc Straub
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Brunó Ferenc Straub | |
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6th Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council | |
In office 29 June 1988 – 23 October 1989 | |
Preceded by | Károly Németh |
Succeeded by | Mátyás Szűrös |
Personal details | |
Born | Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) | 5 January 1914
Died | 15 February 1996 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Political party | Hungarian Socialist Workers Party |
Spouse(s) | Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940–1967) Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972–1993) |
Children | 2 daughters |
Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) – 15 February 1996) was a biochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, and subsequently worked at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge, UK. He is credited with the discovery of actin. He founded the Biological Research Centre in Szeged. He was the Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 29 June 1988 to 23 October 1989. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964[citation needed]; the same year the MWC model was proposed.