Kate Bárány: a life of science, teaching, and service

We celebrate the lives of Michael and Kate Bárány in this issue of the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility . Kate and Michael died within weeks of each other in 2011. Joe Chalovich has written about Michael and we write about Kate. As emphasized by Joe, Kate, and Michael were remarkable ind...

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Published in:Journal of muscle research and cell motility 2012-12, Vol.33 (6), p.369-371
Main Authors: Solaro, R. John, Rao, Mrinalini C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actins - history
Actins - metabolism
Animal Anatomy
Biochemistry - history
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Bárány
Cell Biology
Histology
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Holocaust
Hungary
Kate Bárány
Life Sciences
Morphology
Muscle Contraction
Proteomics
Skeletal Muscle Myosins - history
Skeletal Muscle Myosins - metabolism
Teaching - history
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Summary:We celebrate the lives of Michael and Kate Bárány in this issue of the Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility . Kate and Michael died within weeks of each other in 2011. Joe Chalovich has written about Michael and we write about Kate. As emphasized by Joe, Kate, and Michael were remarkable individuals who survived the Holocaust, the Hungarian revolution, and emerged from as much adversity as one might imagine to become productive scientists, educators, citizens, and symbols of the durability of the human spirit. They present their own story in an essay (Bárány and Bárány 2000 ) published in a monograph “Selected Topics in the History of Biochemistry.” Rather than repeating much of the list of scientific achievements chronicled in these papers, we focus here on Kate, especially in her role as an individual and partner in science, while at the same time being an accomplished teacher, and a champion of women in science.
ISSN:0142-4319
1573-2657
DOI:10.1007/s10974-012-9301-1