Early Life
Henrik (or Henrick) Kacser was born in Câmpina, Romania, in 1918 of Austro-Hungarian parents who later moved to Berlin where Henrik went to school. Before the World War II, he move to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he did his undergraduate and postgraduate work at the Queen's University of Belfast. There he studied chemistry, specialising in physical chemistry as a postgraduate student. He went to Edinburgh in 1952 as a Nuttfield Fellow under a scheme to introduce physical scientists into biology. This was to become the start of his work as a geneticist/biochemist. He got the Diploma of Animal Genetics, and in 1955 he became appointed lecturer in the department of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
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