Brunó Ferenc Straub

Brunó Ferenc Straub
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	(1914-01-05)5 January 1914 Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania)
Died	15 February 1996(1996-02-15) (aged 82)
Nationality	Hungarian
Spouse(s)	Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940-1967) Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972-1993)
Children	2 daughters

The native form of this personal name is Straub Ferenc Brunó. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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; the same year the MWC model was proposed.