The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 509 Chemists, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 42nd most number of Chemists behind U.S. Virgin Islands and Estonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Chemists of all time. This list of famous Romanian Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914 - 1996)
With an HPI of 53.01, Brunó Ferenc Straub is the most famous Romanian Chemist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
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. He proposed the theory of conformational selection in 1964, the same year the Monod–Wyman–Changeux model was proposed.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chemists born between 1914 and 1914. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chemists include Brunó Ferenc Straub.
