Sergey Vasilievich Durmishidze ( March 12, 1910 , Sachkhere , Georgia - 1989 ) - Soviet and Georgian plant biochemist .
| Sergey Vasilievich Durmishidze | |
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| Date of Birth | March 12, 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Sachkhere , Georgia |
| Date of death | May 29, 1989 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |
| A country |
 Georgian SSR |
| Scientific field | Biochemistry |
| Place of work | All-Union Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking at VASKHNIL , Tbilisi Agricultural Institute , Tbilisi State University , Institute of Plant Biochemistry |
| Alma mater | Tiflis Agricultural Institute |
| Academic rank | Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR , professor |
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Biography
Born March 12, 1910 in Sachkhere. Soon after birth, he moved to Tiflis and in 1926 entered the Tiflis Agricultural Institute, which he graduated in 1931. In 1932, he got a job at the All-Union Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking and worked until 1935. In 1935, the administration of the Tiflis Agricultural Institute invited him back as a researcher, where he worked until 1935. In 1936, the Agricultural Institute changed its name to Tbilisi, in connection with the change of the name of the capital of the Georgian SSR, at the same time from 1943 to 1945 he held the post of director of the Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking. From 1955 to 1972 he was an academician-secretary of the Department of Biology of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR. In 1958 he moved to work at TbilSU, where he served as professor of the department of biochemistry. In the 1960s, he founded the Institute of Biochemistry and after its opening in 1971 he unanimously elected the director of this institute and worked in this position until his death.
He died in 1989.
Scientific activity
The main scientific works are devoted to the study of grape biochemistry and methods of its processing. The author of over 300 scientific works, 5 monographs and 6 inventions. He studied the metabolism of flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, hydrocarbons in plants. He developed the molecular basis for the detoxification of xenobiotics in plants.
Rewards
- Order of Lenin (02.29.1980) [1]
- 4 orders of the Red Banner of Labor
Selected Works
- Durmishidze S. V. Questions of the biochemistry of grape processing. - Tbilisi .: Metznireba, 1967. - 54 p.
Society Memberships
- 1955-89 - Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR .
Notes
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 29, 1980 No. 1652 — X “On Awarding the Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR Durmishidze S. V. with the Order of Lenin” // “Vedomosti of the Supreme Council of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics”. - No. 10 (2032) dated March 5, 1980. - Art. 187.
Literature
- Biographical Dictionary of the Figures of Natural Science and Technology. - In 2 vols. - M.: Great Soviet Encyclopedia , 1958-59
- Biologists. Biographical reference book. - Kiev .: Naukova Dumka , 1984.— 816 pp., Ill.