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Administrative responsibilities: Of the 20 academicians listed in this department in
1989, six held responsible positions as heads of major laboratories; two acted as
Deputy Director of a SRI, and nine either served or had served as Directors of
departmental SRIs. Among the 44 corresponding members one was Vice President
of a republic academy, seven headed major laboratories, five served as Deputy
Directors of major SRIs, and four were Directors of SRIs. Fifty-eight percent of the
academicians and corresponding members of Physical and Chemical Biology
Department held major scientific administrative posts in research units subordinate
to the department.
Academicians--age and schools: The average age of the 20 academicians of Physical
and Chemical Biology Department in 1991 was 72.65 years. This average is
skewed by the fact that nine of the academicians were over 83 years old and the
youngest one was 54. Two were 90; two were 89; three were 88; one was 83, and
one was 81. Their educational background is interesting: Only two academicians
have no degrees attributed to them, though both graduated from agriculturallyrelated
institutions. Of the other eighteen, the institutions which graduated them is
known in the cases of 14: Moscow State University graduated five; the D. I.
Mendeleev Moscow Chemical Engineering Institute in Moscow, two; the K. A.
Timariazev Moscow Agricultural Academy (now the V. I. Lenin) one; the Kazan'
Institute of Agriculture and Forestry one; the Kazan' Medical Institute one; the
University of Erevan one; the 1st Moscow Medical Institute one; the University of
Voronezh one, and the 2nd Moscow Chemical Engineering Institute one. These 14
graduates attended nine different institutions. One-half of the academicians of this
department were born during or before the Russian Revolution.
Corresponding Members--age and schools: Corresponding members totaled 44 in
1989. Ten of the 39 corresponding members whose birth dates are known were
over 80 years old in 1991. The oldest member was 92 and the youngest was 48
years old. The average age of the corresponding members of this department was
69.4 years. Russian scientists have pursued biological interests from the beginning
of science in Russia. Only two of the 44 members appear to have no degrees; one
holds a candidates degree. Institutions, where known, which graduated these
corresponding members include: Moscow State University graduated seven; the M.
V. Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Fine Chemical Technology, two; The K. A.
Timiriazev Moscow Academy of Agriculture, one; the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow
Aviation Institute, one; the 1st Moscow Medical School Institute, one; the 1st
Leningrad Medical School Institute, one; the Saratov Agricultural Institute, one; the
Odessa Agricultural Institute, one, the Kuban Agricultural Institute, one, and the
Kazan' Institute of Chemical Engineering, one. There were four women among the
corresponding members of this department in 1989.
(1997 update)
Bureau of the Department
Academician-- Secretary
Academician Dmitrii G. Knorre, tel.938-16-67, 938-52-40
Deputies of the Academician-Secretary:
Academician Andrei D. Mizarbekov, tel.135-23-11
Mirzabekov, Andrei D., D. Chem. S. Born in 1937. Corresponding member since
1981, and academician and Academician Secretary to the Biochemistry,
Biophysics, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds Department since
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