Brunó Ferenc Straub

Who was Brunó Ferenc Straub?

Brunó Ferenc Straub 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 June 29, 1988 to October 18, 1989. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964; the same year the MWC model was proposed.