. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. Salvador E. Luria research on muscle—but he remained a constant influ- ence throughout my scientific career. I vividly remember two aspects of Prof's work that made a profound impres- sion on me at the time I was finishing medical school or shortly thereafter. One was a paper in Science in which Prof described his ideas about the application of quan- tum mechanics to the understanding of biological phe- nomena. The other was a series of publications on the pioneering work on muscle, from the Szeged Institute, that laid the f
. The Biological bulletin. Biology; Zoology; Biology; Marine Biology. Salvador E. Luria research on muscle—but he remained a constant influ- ence throughout my scientific career. I vividly remember two aspects of Prof's work that made a profound impres- sion on me at the time I was finishing medical school or shortly thereafter. One was a paper in Science in which Prof described his ideas about the application of quan- tum mechanics to the understanding of biological phe- nomena. The other was a series of publications on the pioneering work on muscle, from the Szeged Institute, that laid the foundation for much that we know today about muscle structure and function. Beyond the immediate influence in scientific matters, I remember Prof's philosophy about the unity of all living things, his equating of truth and beauty in science. I re- member his telling me at one point that while living and working in Woods Hole he couldn't help noticing the soaring seagulls and seeing perfection and beauty in these creatures. He said that in the face of such beauty he would be ashamed of doing poor research—not that he ever could. John Gergely graduated in medicine from the University of Budapest in 1942, and be- came a member of Szent-Gyor- gyi's Budapest Institute in 1946. At Szent-Gyorgyi's suggestion, he studied quantum chemistry with the late M. G. Evans in Leeds as a post-doctoral fellow. Szent-Gyorgyi helped him move to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Mary- land, where he began his re- search on muscle proteins. Since 1951 Gergely has had ap- pointments at the Massachu- setts General Hospital and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. In 1961 he joined the Retina Foundation (now known as the Boston Biomedical Research Institute) where he organized the Department of Muscle Research and is working on the structure and function of the proteins of the contrac- tile and regulatory machinery of muscle. Teru Hayashi Professor Emeritus, University of Miami Scho
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