Kiselev, Nikolai Andreevich

In 1941-1942 was a worker of one of the Moscow enterprises. In 1948 he graduated with honors from the automotive department of a technical school, in 1955 he graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute . His thesis was devoted to the development of a dilatometer with a capacitive sensor.

After graduating, he worked for some time at the A.A. Baykov Institute of Metallurgy and then transferred to the Laboratory of Measuring Instruments (later - I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy ), where he was engaged in the development of nuclear reactors for aircraft and rockets. Then goes to the Institute of Crystallography. A.V. Shubnikova : junior and senior researcher , head of the laboratory, later the sector.

A specialist in the study of the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, viruses and ribosomes by high resolution electron microscopy, the author of more than 300 scientific publications in domestic and foreign journals. He established the quaternary structure of many proteins, the structure of several viruses, found new forms of protein crystallization, made a significant contribution to the study of the structure of ribosomes.

Author of scientific papers on electron microscopy and image processing methods for biological macromolecules (nucleic acids, proteins). Together with A. S. Spirin, he studied the structure of the most important cellular particles - ribosomes, with N. M. Emmanuel - radiation damage to DNA, and with L. L. Kiselev - he received the first microphotographs of transport RNA.

Doctor of Biological Sciences (1964). Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1979).

After a scientific internship at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he continued his research in the field of the quaternary structure of proteins, and adjusted the processing of electron microscopic images. The quaternary structure of approximately 15 proteins was established; the fine structure of ribosomes was studied. Together with the Cambridge laboratory he studied the structure of the hepatitis B virus.

In the late 1980s. He was engaged in research of objects of solid state physics. Together with colleagues, he obtained fundamentally new data on the orientation dependence of the structure of grain boundaries in bi-crystals, and the structure of Josephson compounds was established. First proposed a detailed crystallographic characterization of silicon tips. In 1986, for a series of works “Structural Foundations of Protein Biosynthesis on Ribosomes,” he was awarded the USSR State Prize as part of a team of authors.

In the 1990s He was engaged in research of various types of carbon nanotubes, he discovered and studied nanocomposites based on them. This made it possible to proceed to the study of field emitters and the creation of x-ray microtubes. He was engaged in the study of the nanocomposite "one-dimensional crystal - single-walled nano-tube." Since 1996, he headed the RAS Council for Electron Microscopy.

Under his leadership, 18 candidate and doctoral dissertations were completed and defended.

He was an honorary member of the British Royal Microscopic Society.

He was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery , place 2-7-20.

Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1986) for a series of works “Structural Foundations of Protein Biosynthesis on Ribosomes” (1962-1984, co-authored).

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree ( June 4, 1999 ) - for his great contribution to the development of domestic science, the training of highly qualified personnel and in connection with the 275th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences ^[1]

• Profile of Nikolai Andreyevich Kiselev on the official website of the RAS
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Nikolai Andreevich Kiselev (on the occasion of his 80th birthday) // Crystallography . 2008.V. 53. No. 6.