Brunó Ferenc Straub | |
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| Chairman of the Presidential Council of the People's Republic of Hungary | |
| In office 29 June 1988 – 23 October 1989 | |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers | Károly Grósz Miklós Németh |
| Preceded by | Károly Németh |
| Succeeded by | Mátyás Szűrös |
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| Born | (1914-01-05)5 January 1914 |
| Died | 15 February 1996(1996-02-15) (aged 82) |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Party | Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Erzsébet Lichneckert (1940–1967) Gertrud Szabolcsi (1972–1993) |
| Children | 2 daughters |
Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 inNagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (nowOradea,Romania) – 15 February 1996) was abiochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant ofAlbert Szent-Györgyi at theUniversity of Szeged, and subsequently worked at theMolteno Institute,Cambridge, UK. He was the first to obtainactin in a relatively pure state.[1] He founded theBiological Research Centre inSzeged. He was thechairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council from 29 June 1988 to 23 October 1989. He proposed the theory ofconformational selection in 1964,[2][3] the same year theMonod–Wyman–Changeux model was proposed.[4][5]
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