Background
Margoliash, Emanuel was born on February 10, 1920 in Cairo. Son of Wolf and Bertha (Kotler) Margoliash.
Margoliash, Emanuel was born on February 10, 1920 in Cairo. Son of Wolf and Bertha (Kotler) Margoliash.
Bachelor, American University, Beirut, 1940. Master of Arts, American University, Beirut, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, American University, Beirut, 1945.
Margoliash earned an Doctor of Medicine from the American University of Beirut. He served as an Israeli Army medical officer during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently held research positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-Hadassah Medical School, the Nobel Institute Department of Biochemistry, the University of Utah College of Medicine, the McGill-Montreal General Hospital Research Institute, Abbott Laboratories, Northwestern University, where he was chair of the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology during the 1980s. He left Abbott Laboratories to join the faculty at Northwestern University, and continued his research on cytochrome c, until Northwestern Universities policies forced him to retire.
He quietly enjoyed his retirement ceremonies and immediately obtained a position (with all new labs) at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His passion for cytochrome C research took him all over the world, and in 1970 he was offered the chance to dissect a coelacanth fish and isolate its cytochrome C for sequencing. This fish which lives at great ocean depths was washed up on the shores of France during the war, and DeGaulle 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 anaerobic animal.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Microbiology, American Institute Chemists. Member National Academy of Sciences, Bio-chemical Society (Keilin Memorial lecturer 1970), Harvey Society (lecturer 1970-1971), American Society Bio-chemical Molecular Biology (publications committee 1973-1976), American Chemical Society, American Society Microbiology, Canada Bio-chemical Society, Society Development Biology, Biophysics Society (executive committee United States bioenergetics group 1980-1983), New York Academy of Sciences, Illinois Academy of Sciences, American Society Naturalists, Sigma Xi (national lecturer 1972-1973, 74-77).
Married Sima Beshkin, August 22, 1944. Children: Reuben, Daniel.