Abstract
Jerzy Jurka: June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014
Highlights
Jerzy Jurka, biologist, pioneer in the field of mobile DNA, and the founder, President and Director of Research at Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI) from 1994 to 2014, died on July 19 at his home in Los Altos, California
While in Gliwice, Jerzy divided his time between carrying out research and studying for his doctorate (Figure 1). His first paper titled “On replication of nucleic acids in relation to the evolution of genetic code and of proteins” was published in 1977. He received his doctoral degree in molecular biology from the University of Warsaw in 1979
Dr Manfred Eigen, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, at the Max Planck Institute in Gottingen, Germany and in the laboratory of Dr Chapelville at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France, where he worked with Dr Jacques Ninio
Summary
Jerzy Jurka, biologist, pioneer in the field of mobile DNA, and the founder, President and Director of Research at Genetic Information Research Institute (GIRI) from 1994 to 2014, died on July 19 at his home in Los Altos, California. In 1974, Jerzy accepted a position in the laboratory of Prof. While in Gliwice, Jerzy divided his time between carrying out research and studying for his doctorate (Figure 1).
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