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Árpád Pusztai
Hungarian-born British biochemist (1930–2021)
The native form of this personal name is Pusztai Árpád. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Árpád János Pusztai (8 September 1930 – 17 December 2021[1]) was a Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist who spent 36 years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a world expert on plant lectins, authoring 270 papers and three books on the subject.
In 1998, Árpád Pusztai publicly announced that the results of his research showed feeding genetically modified potatoes to rats had negative effects on their stomach lining and immune system. This led to scientific criticism. Pusztai was suspended and his annual contract was not renewed. The resulting controversy became known as the Pusztai affair.
Life and career
[edit]Pusztai was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 8 September 1930. He was a student of the high school Óbudai Árpád Gimnázium and later obtained a diploma in chemistry in 1953 from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He worked for three years as an associate scientist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences before the Hungarian revolution against Soviet control in 1956.[2] After the failed revolution, Pusztai es
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Angelika Hilbeck:
At the biosafety capacity building summer schools at GenØk (under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety), I met Árpád Pusztai for the first time. I had long discussions and personal stories to share with him and his wife Susan. I sensed his deep, deep personal disappointment in the scientific establishment to which he belonged most of his life and the loss of life-long friends (the Gatehouses). In these conversations with him, I realized that my own degree of personal disappointment and loss of trust in the scientific establishment was nowhere near Árpád’s, simply for the fact that I had not really belonged to it at that time in the first place, as a result of my much younger age (it hit me at the beginning of my career, not at the end as for Árpád) and gender (as a woman you didn’t belong to the male-dominated science world anyway, certainly not as a young post-doc and mother). I never had reasons to really trust the scientific establishment, but he did. His disappointment was immense and it left deep wounds that, I believe, never healed, just scarred with the help of his wonderful wife and partner in science and loyal friends, of whom he had many: I count myself to this group.
I also saw Árpád’s unwavering de