He was an active participant in the French colonization of Algiers, where he received a large grant of land & allegedly suggested the formation of the French Foreign Legion in order to reduce the burden of Polish exiles on the French state.
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During a sabbatical year at the California Institute of Technology, Mirsky published a paper with Linus Pauling on the general theory of protein structure, suggesting that the structure of proteins are coiled in a specific configuration that accounts for the function in the body, and that the protein is denatured when that configuration is lost by breaking the hydrogen bonds that stabilize the structure.
Other films to which Mirsky has contributed music are Palindromes, The Company and Desert Blue.
Mirsky, L. Transversal Theory, New York, Academic Press, 1971.
Mirsky has also edited, and wrote the introduction for, Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942, and published several works and articles in The Partisan Review, New Directions Annual, The Boston Sunday Globe, and The New York Times Book Review.
The BBC Experiment was led by psychologists Professor Alex Haslam (University of Exeter) and Professor Steve Reicher (University of St Andrews) who planned and designed the psychological experiment with the series' executive producer Nick Mirsky and producer Gaby Koppel of the BBC.