Andrey Kursanov
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Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Template:Langx; 8 November 1902 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet specialist on the physiology and biochemistry of plants. He was an academician of the Soviet and Russian Academies of Sciences since 1953. He was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1957–1963.[1]
Kursanov graduated from Moscow State University in 1926. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sciences in biology in 1940 and became a professor at his alma mater in 1944.[1] In 1954, Kursanov and Boris Rybakov represented the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the Columbia University Bicentennial in New York City.[2]
Professor Kursanov was awarded a number of honorary doctorates and was an honorary member of a number of foreign scientific societies and academies. He was elected a foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962[3] and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1965.[1]
Awards and honors
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)[1]
- Order of Lenin, four times (1953, 1969, 1972, 1975)[1]
- Order of the October Revolution (1982)[1]
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice (1945, 1962)[1]
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (1983)[1]
References
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- 1902 births
- 1999 deaths
- Scientists from Moscow
- Academic staff of Moscow State Pedagogical University
- Academicians of the Russian Academy of Agriculture Sciences
- Academicians of the VASKhNIL
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Moscow State University alumni
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Recipients of the Lomonosov Gold Medal
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Plant physiologists
- Russian biochemists
- Soviet biochemists
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery