Emanuel Margoliash

Emanuel Margoliash (February 10, 1920 – April 10, 2008) was a biochemist who spent much of his career studying the protein cytochrome c. He is best known for his work on molecular evolution; with Walter Fitch, he devised the Fitch-Margoliash method for constructing evolutionary trees based on protein sequences.

He was a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biography Margoliash was born in Cairo in 1920. until Northwestern University's policies forced him to retire. during the war, and de Gaulle deemed it a "French fish" and refused to allow its exportation. Margoliash went to France and with his colleagues carried out the cytochrome C isolation of the large fish, and returned with a small crystal in a small vial which represented the entire amount of cytochrome C in the unusual animal.

He died in Chicago in 2008 at the age of 88.