Alexander Alexandrovich Bayev

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Baev , Russian Александр Александрович Баев (born December 28, 1903 English transcription Aleksandr Baev, ^jul. / 10. January  1904 ^greg. In Chita , † 31 December 1994 in Moscow ) was a Russian biochemist and molecular biologist.

Bajew first studied medicine at the University of Kazan , graduating in 1927 and then was there in the biochemical department. In 1935 he became an employee at the Biochemical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Bach Institute), where he was a student of Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Engelhardt and, in 1959, professor of functional enzymology at the Institute for Molecular Biology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Later he was head of the chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics department of physiologically active compounds.

He dealt with the biochemistry and molecular biology of enzymes and in particular of nucleic acids (structure and function of transfer RNA in the 1960s), cell respiration (and the role of adenosine triphosphate in it, 1930s) and biomembranes. In the 1970s he dealt with genetic engineering and biotechnology and in the 1980s with the decoding of the human genome in the USSR. Around 900 scientific papers were written by him, including 17 books.

He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (full member from 1970) and was awarded high Soviet prizes (State Prize 1969, Hero of Socialist Labor 1981). In 1973 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1994 he received the Engelhardt Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

literature

• Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 24

Web links

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Aleksandr A. Bajev at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 10, 2016.