Andrey Kursanov

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Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Russian: Андрей Львович Курсанов; 8 November 1902, Moscow – 20 September 1999, Moscow) 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 USSR 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]

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 and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1965.^[1]

Awards and honours

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 of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1983)^[1]

and other awards

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 "Kursanov Andrey Lvovich". Akademiki MGU. Moscow State University. Retrieved 8 January 2012. (Russian)

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