David Shugar
David Shugar (born September 10, 1915 in Józefów ; † October 31, 2015 ) was a Polish biophysicist and founder of the Polish School of Molecular Biophysics .
life and work
He came to Canada with his parents when he was four or five years old . He studied physics at McGill University in Montreal until 1936 and received his doctorate there in 1940. From January 1941 until he was called up for military service, he was employed in a research institute in Leaside near Toronto . During the Second World War he served from February 5, 1944 as a lieutenant in the Canadian Navy fighting submarines. From 1946 he served in the Canadian Department of Health and Social Affairs. He was falsely accused of espionage but was acquitted by the court.
From 1948 to 1950 he worked scientifically at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on the kinetics of enzymes , since 1952 at the Center for Nuclear Physics at the Free University of Brussels , where he studied the spectral properties of nucleic acids . At the invitation of Leopold Infeld , he moved to Warsaw in 1952 and took over the management of the chair for biochemistry at the State Hygiene Institute. From 1954 he also worked at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences . In 1965 he founded the Chair of Biophysics at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw ; in the same year he was elected first chairman of the Polish Society of Medical Physics and held this post until 1969.
His wife Grace Wales Shugar (1918–2013) founded the Center for Developmental Psycholinguistics at the Warsaw University Faculty of Psychology.
Honors
In 1966 he was awarded the State Prize, Second Class. In 1969 he received honorary doctorates from both Ghent University and Warsaw University. Since 1983 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he received the Marian Smoluchowski Medal .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Biography ( Memento from July 7, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- David Shugar. In: Encyclopaedia, Canada's Human Rights History.
- A poem for the 80th birthday ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shugar, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish biophysicist, founder of the Polish School of Molecular Biophysics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Józefów |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 2015 |