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Brunó Ferenc Straub

1914 - 1996

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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 was the first to obtain actin in a relatively pure state. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Brunó Ferenc Straub is the 414th most popular chemist (down from 367th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 174th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 414 out of 602. Before him are Ernst Otto Beckmann, Luke Howard, Henry Roscoe, John William Draper, Jan Czochralski, and Jean-Antoine Chaptal. After him are Franz von Soxhlet, George Church, Otto Wichterle, Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Walther Kossel, and Carl Graebe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 186. Before him are Toulo de Graffenried, Howard Fast, Zivia Lubetkin, Joe Shuster, Selahattin Ülkümen, and Muazzez İlmiye Çığ. After him are Théo Lefèvre, Alfred Andersch, Aníbal Troilo, BP Koirala, Giuseppe Caprio, and Harold Russell. Among people deceased in 1996, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 134. Before him are Annabella, Dan Flavin, Henri Nouwen, José Manuel Fuente, Stanko Todorov, and Hyman Minsky. After him are Ljuba Welitsch, Juan Hohberg, Danilo Alvim, Christopher Robin Milne, Chas Chandler, and Amata Kabua.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 232 out of 844. Before him are Radu Vasile (1942), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), Michael von Melas (1729), Kálmán Tisza (1830), Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), and Alexander Vencel (1944). After him are John Houseman (1902), Maria Tănase (1913), Matei Basarab (1580), Tudor Arghezi (1880), Mircea Diaconu (1949), and Liviu Rebreanu (1885).

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Among chemists born in Romania, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 1. 

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