Brunó Ferenc Straub, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Brunó Ferenc Straub

Hungarian biochemist, the last Chairman of the Hungarian Presidential Council

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1914

Place of Birth: Oradea, Bihor County

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1996

Profession: politician, chemist, university teacher, biochemist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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.