Aleksei Konstantinovich Skvortsov (1920-2008) - Soviet and Russian botanist , professor (1983), Doctor of Biological Sciences , academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences , laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989), specialist in the field of higher plant systematics, floristry and introduction .
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| Place of Birth | Zhelanya village, Smolensk region | |||
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| A country |  USSR →  Russia | |||
| Scientific field | Botany | |||
| Place of work | Main Botanical Garden named after N.V. Tsitsin RAS | |||
| Alma mater | Moscow 2nd Medical Institute | |||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Biological Sciences | |||
| Academic rank | Professor | |||
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " AKSkvortsov " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Selected Publications
- 4 Awards and recognition
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Biography
He was born on February 9, 1920 in the village of Zhelanya, Smolensk region, in the family of a professor of psychiatry, Konstantin Alekseevich Skvortsov (1894-1979) [1] .
In 1936 he entered the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute , where he studied histology [2] . In 1941 he graduated from the institute and until 1943 he worked as a doctor of evacuation hospitals . In 1944-1951 - a graduate student , then a junior researcher at the Institute of Experimental Biology of the USSR Academy of Sciences . In 1948 he defended his thesis on histology [2] . Even in his student years, he was actively engaged in floristic research and herbarium collections. During postgraduate studies, he simultaneously took courses in botanical disciplines at Moscow State University [2] .
In 1952, by invitation, he joined the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University as a senior researcher, in which he organized and oversaw a section of taxonomy, and then headed the department of herbaceous plants, at the same time taught a course on some sections of the theory of taxonomy at the department of higher plants [2] .
A.K. Skvortsov defended his doctoral dissertation in 1966 according to the taxonomy of the willow genus ( Salix ); in 1968, his monograph “Willows of the USSR” was published, which was awarded two years later by the prize of the Moscow Society of Naturalists [3] .
In 1966-1989, he was the head of the herbarium , and since 1972, the head of the flora department of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences . From 1989 until the end of his life, he was the chief scientific associate of the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
He died on May 8, 2008 . He was buried at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. .
Scientific activity
The area of scientific interests and professional activity of A. K. Skvortsov was the flora of the European part of the USSR, especially the west of the Non-Black Earth Center and the Lower Volga ; taxonomy of the genera Salix , Betula , Epilobium ; general issues of evolution and, in particular, intraspecific variability and microevolution.
His research also included the introduction and acclimatization of a number of promising plants (including blue honeysuckle and apricot ) to the conditions of Moscow.
A. K. Skvortsov described more than 100 plant species and collected more than 50 thousand herbarium specimens for the herbarium of the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since 1974, he was elected Chairman of the Board of the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Botanical Society . A wide range of his biological interests was reflected in the journal Nature , he was the deputy editor-in-chief of this journal, and also a member of the editorial boards of the Botanical Journal , the Bulletin of the Main Botanical Garden and the foreign journal Flora .
Selected Publications
- Skvortsov A.K. Willows of the USSR. Systematic and geographical overview . - Moscow: “Science”, 1968. - 262 p.
- Skvortsov A.K. Mechanisms of Organic Evolution and the Progress of Cognition // Nature. - 1992. - No. 7 . - S. 3-10 . Archived March 2, 2012.
- Skvortsov A.K. At the Origins of Systematics. To the 300th anniversary of Karl Linnaeus // Nature: Journal. - 2007. - No. 4 .
Awards and recognition
- USSR State Prize (1989) - For the work “Arctic Flora of the USSR”
- Prize named after V. L. Komarov of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002) - For a series of works on a single topic “Systematics of the Birch ( Betulaceae ) and Willow ( Salicaceae )” families [4]
In honor of Alexei Konstantinovich Skvortsov, the following plant species were named [3] :
- Festuca skvortsovii EBAlexeev
- Salix alexii-skvortzovii APKhokhr.
- Legousia skvortsovii Proskur.
- Circaea × skvortsovii Boufford
- Potamogeton skvortsovii Klinkova
In addition, in honor of Skvortsov, his student L. A. Kramarenko named the apricot varieties Alesha and Aquarius created by her [3] .
Notes
- ↑ V. Kaplinsky. Part 3. Ugranian river // Lost springs . - Smolensk, 2003.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Bulletin, 1990 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 "Nature", 2008 .
- ↑ Skvortsov Alexey Konstantinovich: Awards // Official website of the RAS.
Literature
- Andreev L.N. Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov (on the occasion of his 70th birthday) // Bulletin of the Main Botanical Garden. - 1990. - Vol. 157 . - S. 109-110 .
- Encyclopedic nerd: In memory of A. K. Skvortsov // Nature: Journal. - 2008. - No. 9 . - S. 76-77 .
- Belyaev I.V. et al. In memory of Alexei Konstantinovich Skvortsov // Botanical Journal. - 2008. - T. 93, No. 12. - S. 1996-2000: ill. - ISSN 0006-8136
- Vinogradova Yu.K., Kuklina A.G., Pimenov M.G., Sytin A.K., Kamelin R.V. , Yurtsev B.A. Aleksei Konstantinovich Skvortsov (on the occasion of his 85th birthday) // Botanical Journal. - 2005. - T. 90, No. 1. - S. 125-137.