Kliment Timiryazev
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Russian biologist (1843-1920)
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Kliment Timiryazev (1843–1920) was a male botanist, physiologist, and inventor who worked in the field of biology. Born in Saint Petersburg and dying in Moscow from pneumonia, he is buried at Vagankovo Cemetery. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His native and writing language was Russian.
Timiryazev received a Doctor of Sciences degree and was a student of Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. He taught at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian State Agricultural University, and Imperial Moscow University. His doctoral students included Vladimir Palladin and Vassili Sapojnikov. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Free Economic Society, and the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
He received the Croonian Medal and Lecture. His work is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and is recognized in the Royal Society collection.
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Key facts
- Born
- 22 May 1843 , Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- 28 April 1920 (aged 76) , Moscow , Russian Soviet Republic
- Alma mater
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Awards
- Croonian Lecture (1903)
- Fields
- Botany , physiology
- Institutions
- Moscow State University
- Thesis
- Spectral analysis of chlorophyll (1871)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Child
- Arkadi Timiryazev
- Employer
- Imperial Moscow University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Student of
- Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
- Field of work
- biology
- Image
- Kliment Timiryazev 1911.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kliment Timiryazev
- date of birth
- 1843-05-22
- date of death
- 1920-04-28
- place of burial
- Vagankovo Cemetery
- Commons Creator page
- Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
- writing language
- Russian
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, sometimes Timiriazev (Russian: Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев; 22 May [O.S. 3 June] 1843 – 28 April 1920) was a Russian botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of thought of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of plant physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.
Biography
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