Andrey Kursanov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrey Kursanov

Soviet biochemist

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1902

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1999

Profession: university teacher, physiologist, botanist, biochemist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Andrey Lvovich Kursanov (Russian: ?????? ??????? ????????; 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 USSR in 1957–1963.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.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.