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of the Phosphor-organic Chemistry Laboratory of the Element-organic Compounds
Institute. Since 1977, he has been Deputy Director of the A. N. Nesmeianov
Element-organic Compounds Institute in Moscow. His works are in the chemistry
of organophosphorous compounds and theoretical problems of organic chemistry.
Recipient of the State Prize, 1946. (GSE 11, p. 316.)
Khokhlov, Aleksandr S., D. Chem S. Born in 1916 in Moscow. Russian chemist.
Corresponding member of Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the
Academy since 1964; academician in 1993. He graduated from Moscow Institute of
Fine Chemistry Technology in 1941. From 1948 to 1952, he researched at the
Institute of Biological and Medical Chemistry of the Academy of Medical Science of
the USSR From 1952 to 1954, he headed a laboratory at the Institute of
Experimental Cancer Pathology and Therapy (now the Institute of Experimental and
Clinical Oncology.) From 1954 to 1959, he headed a section of the All-Union
Antibiotics Institute. In 1959, he became Deputy Director of the M. M. Shemiakin
Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry and Head of one of its laboratories. He has
served as Deputy Director since 1960 of the Shemiakin Bio-organic Chemistry
Institute in Moscow. Since 1975, Head of the Isolation and Purification of Natural
Substances Laboratory of the Shemiakin Bio-organic Chemistry Institute. His
works are in antibiotics, anti-neoplastic agents, microbial bioregulation, and other
natural substances. (GSE 28, p. 598.)
Knorre, Dmitrii G., D. Chem S. Born in 1926. Chemist, Biochemist, specialist in
chemical kinetics of complex reactions, bioorganic chemistry, and molecular
biology. Corresponding member since 1968, and academician since 1981. Principal
membership in Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the academy and of
the Siberian Department since 1981. He graduated from the D. I. Mendeleev
Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute in 1947. He worked at the Chemical
Physics Institute from 1947 to 1960 when he joined the Siberian Department in a
laboratory studying natural polymers and joined the Department of biochemistry of
the Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry. In 1962, he acted as Head of the
Natural Polymers Laboratory of the Organic Chemistry Institute in Novosibirsk that
was established in 1958 and whose basic work is in the study of aromatic and
heterocyclic chemistry and in natural products. He was named Director-organizer of
the Novosibirsk Bioorganic Chemistry. He was named to the Presidium of the
Siberian Branch in 1988. From 1967 to 1983, he was a professor on the faculty of
natural sciences holding the chair in molecular biology from 1979. He is an
Honored Scientist of the former Soviet Union. He received the Laureate Prize of the
Soviet Ministry in 1987, and the M. M. Shemiakin AN SSSR Prize in 1988. He
holds other recognitions and awards for his work. He is currently the Academician
Secretary of the Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the Academy. (GSE
12, p. 554.)
Kondrat’eva, (Kondrateva) Elena N., D. Bio S. Corresponding member since
1981; academician since 1993. In 1976, she was listed as a junior researcher in the
X-Ray Astronomy subdepartment of the Spectroscopy Laboratory of the P. N.
Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow.
Krasnovskii, Aleksandr A., D. Bio S. Born in 1913 in Odessa. Russian biochemist
and biophysicist. Academician since 1976. He graduated from the Moscow
Chemical Engineering Institute in 1937. Since 1944, he has worked at the Institute
of Biochemistry of the AN SSSR and the RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences)
where since 1959, he has headed the Photo Biochemistry Laboratory. Since 1954,
he has been a professor in the subdepartment of biophysics at Moscow State
University. His works are in the initial stages of photosynthesis, photo chemistry
or chlorophyll, and state and formation of pigments in organisms. He discovered
the reversible photochemical reduction reaction of chlorophyll and its analogs and
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