Georges Barski
Georges Barski (* 1909 in Warsaw ; † 1985 ) was a Polish - French biologist .
Barski went to school in Warsaw and studied at the university there. After losing his family in World War II , he went to Paris in 1945 to study at the Pasteur Institute . In 1947 he became a researcher at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and headed the cell culture department in the virology department of the Pasteur Institute. In 1958 he became head of the laboratory for cell cultures and virology at the Gustave Roussy Institute in Villejuif near Paris, which he headed for the next two decades. From 1959 to 1961, while studying cancer cells in cultures, he and his colleagues succeeded in discovering somatic cell hybridization by mixing cancer cells and normal cells in a common culture. Barski and co-workers were also able to follow the hybridization process with marked chromosomes . The observations of Barski and colleagues were confirmed shortly afterwards by Boris Ephrussi .
In 1976 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize and in 1971 the Léopold Griffuel Prize .
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- ↑ Barski, p Sorieul, F. Cornefert, Compte Rendu Acad. Science, Vol. 251, 1960, pp. 1825-1827. The same, "Hybrid" type cells in combined cultures of two different mammalian cell strains , J. Nat. Cancer Inst., Vol. 26, 1961, pp. 1269-1291
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barski, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1985 |