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Jacques Ricard
Jacques Ricard (6 August 1929 – 28 December 2018), was a French biophysicist known for studies of plant enzymes and for developing the concept of enzyme memory. Personal life Jacques Ricard was born on 6 August 1929 in Marseille, where he spent his early life and education. After retirement he lived in Lourmarin, in the Vaucluse at the edge of the Luberon, and he died in Le Nayrac, Aveyron on 28 December 2018. He married Katharina (Käty), philosopher of science and author of ''Penser la Vie''. They had one son, Philippe, a cardiologist. Education Ricard studied mathematics and biology at Aix-Marseille University and the Sorbonne (Thèse d'État, 1957). Career Ricard started his career as a young researcher in statistics in the laboratory of Georges Teissier at the Sorbonne. After a postdoctoral period at Cornell University he moved to Aix-Marseille University, where he was a lecturer and later professor of plant biochemistry. At the university he created and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Marseille is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, second-most populous city proper in France, after Paris, with 873,076 inhabitants in 2021. Marseille with its suburbs and exurbs create the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, with a population of 1,911,311 at the 2021 census. Founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea, Marseille is the oldest city in France, as well as one of Europe's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited settlements. It was known to the ancient Greeks as ''Massalia'' and to ancient Romans, Romans as ''Massilia''. Marseille has been a trading port since ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allosteric
In the fields of biochemistry and pharmacology an allosteric regulator (or allosteric modulator) is a substance that binds to a site on an enzyme or receptor distinct from the active site, resulting in a conformational change that alters the protein's activity, either enhancing or inhibiting its function. In contrast, substances that bind directly to an enzyme's active site or the binding site of the endogenous ligand of a receptor are called orthosteric regulators or modulators. The site to which the effector binds is termed the ''allosteric site'' or ''regulatory site''. Allosteric sites allow effectors to bind to the protein, often resulting in a conformational change and/or a change in protein dynamics. Effectors that enhance the protein's activity are referred to as ''allosteric activators'', whereas those that decrease the protein's activity are called ''allosteric inhibitors''. Allosteric regulations are a natural example of control loops, such as feedback from downs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century French Biologists
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2018 Deaths
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1929 Births
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académie Des Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, and is one of the earliest Academy of Sciences, Academies of Sciences. Currently headed by Patrick Flandrin (President of the academy), it is one of the five Academies of the . __TOC__ History The Academy of Sciences traces its origin to Colbert's plan to create a general academy. He chose a small group of scholars who met on 22 December 1666 in the King's library, near the present-day Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque Nationale, and thereafter held twice-weekly working meetings there in the two rooms assigned to the group. The first 30 years of the academy's existence were relatively informal, since no statutes had as yet been laid down for the ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Schuster
Peter K. Schuster (born 7 March 1941) is a theoretical chemist known for his work with the German Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen in developing the quasispecies model. His work has made great strides in the understanding of viruses and their replication, as well as theoretical mechanisms in the origin of life. Biography Schuster was born in Vienna, Austria and graduated with highest honors from "gymnasium". He studied chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna and earned his PhD in 1967. He was a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Together with Eigen, Schuster developed the quasispecies model. He is full professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Vienna, the founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Jena, Germany, as well as the current head of its Department of Molecular Evolutionary Biology. He is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Currently, Prof. Schuster is the President of the Austria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Markus
Mario Markus (born 29 July 1944) is a German-Chilean physicist who worked in the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund. In addition to his scientific work, Markus has exhibited his own computer graphics, as well as written novels, poetry, and translated Spanish poems. Biography In 1970 he obtained his physics diploma under Konrad Tamm at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Heidelberg with a thesis on the Pinch (plasma physics), Pinch-Effekt in plasmas made up of electrons and holes in semiconductors. From March 1970 to 1973 he conducted research for his doctorate on instabilities in plasmas at this institute. At the beginning of 1973 he received his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.). After working as an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main in April 1974. From January 1975 he was a research ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Goldbeter
Albert Goldbeter is a Belgian theoretical biologist who is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Biography Goldbeter was born May 18, 1947, in Uccle, Belgium. After completing his studies in chemistry, including a doctorate in the group of Prof. Ilya Prigogine at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, he was an EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel where he worked with Profs. Roy Caplan and Lee Segel (1973–1975) before returning to the ULB. He then spent another period (1979–1980) working with Prof. Daniel Koshland at the University of California (Berkeley). He was a professor at ULB until his retirement in 2012 and is currently an emeritus Professor at ULB. During his career he has held visiting Professorships at the University of California (Berkeley), Paris VI and Paris XI (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay), and in China at Fudan University in Shanghai, Nanjing Agricultura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Dalziel
Professor Keith Dalziel F.R.S. (24 August 1921 – 7 January 1994) was a British biochemist. Life Dalziel was born in Salford, the youngest of four children of Gilbert and Edith Dalziel. His father, born in Dumfries, Scotland, worked as a mechanic, lorry driver and chauffeur. He was the first of his family to enter higher education. He married Sallie Farnworth in 1945, and the couple had two daughters, born in 1947 and 1952. He died on 7 January 1994. The name Dalziel is of Scottish origin and it is pronounced ɪj'elwith only slightly more stress on the second syllable, essentially like the prefix in -lactic acid. Career Dalziel spent the greater part of his scientific career at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford. He worked primarily on liver alcohol dehydrogenases, and is well known in enzymology for his idiosyncratic way of representing the kinetic equations of two-substrate reactions. He wrote the typical equation as follows: \frac = \phi_ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Athel Cornish-Bowden (born 3 April 1943) is a British biochemist known for his numerous textbooks, particularly those on enzyme kinetics and his work on metabolic control analysis. Education and career Athel Cornish-Bowden worked on pepsin catalysis. This began a life long pursuit of work on enzyme catalysis and in later years work on the control of metabolism. More recently he has also turned his attention to work related to the origin and nature of life. He obtained his D.Phil. at Oxford with Jeremy R. Knowles, and carried out post-doctoral work at Berkeley with Daniel E. Koshland Jr. Research Cornish-Bowden has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and nine textbooks on topics related to enzyme kinetics, mathematics and historical perspectives in science. According to Google Scholar, the textbook ''Fundamentals of enzyme kinetics'' has been cited over 4000 times by secondary sources. Cornish-Bowden's research can be divided into three primary areas: Enzyme kinetics, meta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IUBMB
The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. Formed in 1955 as the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), the union has presently 79 member countries and regions (as of 2020).IUBMB: the first half-century. /ref> The Union is devoted to promoting research and education in biochemistry and molecular biology throughout the world, and gives particular attention to localities where the subject is still in its early development. History The first Congress of Bioche ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
