Norayr Martirosovich Sisakyan ( Armenian Սիսակյան Նորայր Մարտիրոսի ) ( January 12 ( January 25 ) 1907 , Ashtarak , Erivan Province - March 12, 1966 , Moscow ) - Soviet biochemist .
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| Date of Birth | January 12 (25), 1907 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Ashtarak , Erivan Province , Russian Empire | ||||||
| Date of death | March 12, 1966 (59 years old) | ||||||
| Place of death | Moscow , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||
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| Scientific field | biochemistry | ||||||
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| Academic degree | Doctor of Biological Sciences ( 1940 ) | ||||||
| Academic title | professor , Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( 1960 ) Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR ( 1965 ) | ||||||
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Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (06/10/1960; corresponding member from 10/23/1953), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1965; corresponding member 1945).
The main works on the study of the laws of the action of enzymes in the metabolism, biochemistry of drought tolerance of plants, technical biochemistry, space biology.
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Biography
He graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Academy. K.A. Timiryazev ( 1932 ).
Since 1935 he worked at the Institute of Biochemistry. A. N. Bach, USSR Academy of Sciences (at the same time - professor of Moscow State University ).
In 1959 - 1963 academician-secretary of the Department of Biological Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1960 - Member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences . Since 1963, chief scientific secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Since 1965 - Vice-President of the International Astronautical Academy, member of the Pugwash movement of scientists .
Father of the Russian physicist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Sisakyan .
Awards
- 3 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (06/10/1945, 03/27/1954, 06/17/1961)
- Order "Badge of Honor"
- medals
- The Stalin Prize of the third degree ( 1952 ) for the scientific work "Enzymatic activity of protoplasmic structures" (1951)
- 2 Prizes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR named after A.N. Bach ( 1950 , 1966 )
- Prize of the USSR Academy of Sciences named after I. I. Mechnikov ( 1951 )
Memory
- The crater on the moon is named after Sisakyan.
- Also, school number 5 in Ashtarak (Armenia) was named after him.
- Postage stamps dedicated to Sisakyan were issued in Armenia.
- A plaque is installed on the building of the Institute of Biochemistry. A. N. Bach in Moscow.
Hambardzumyan , Alikhanov , Yosifyan , Saltikov , Kocharyants , Mikoyan , Sisakyan, Knunyants , Yenikolopyan
Monument at the grave of N.M. Sisakyan at the Novodevichy Cemetery
Monument N.M. Sisakyan in Ashtarak , Armenia
Literature
- Norayr Martirosovich Sisakyan, M., 1967 (USSR Academy of Sciences. Materials for bio-bibliography of scientists of the USSR. Series of biological sciences. Biochemistry, V. 5)
- Sissakian N. M. Problems of biochemistry and space biology. - M .: Nauka, 2010 .-- 685 p. - ("Classics of science").
Links
- Profile of Norayr Martirosovich Sisakyan on the official website of the RAS
- Norayr Martirosovich Sissakian's profile on the official website of NAS RA
- Sisakyan, Norayr Martirosovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- From the memoirs of E. V. Kosminskoy. How do I remember Norayr Martirosovich Sisakyan
- In memory of Academician N. M. Sissakian // Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1966, No. 3, p. 3
- Elena Kurapova , Academician Norayr Sissakian - a person with a rapid pulse. On the occasion of the 100th birthday of an outstanding scientist. // Independent information-analytical international Armenian newspaper “Noah's Ark”, No. 2 (113), February 2007
| Predecessor: Mikhail Agoshkov | Chief Scientific Secretary of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1963 - 1966 | Successor: George Afanasyev |