Georgi Pavlovich Georgiev

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Georgi Pavlovich Georgijew ( Russian Георгий Павлович Георгиев , English transcription Georgij Georgiev; born February 4, 1933 in Leningrad ) is a Russian molecular biologist.

Georgiev studied from 1950 at the First Medical Institute in Moscow, graduating in 1956. Then he went to the Institute for Animal Morphology of the Academy of Sciences, where he received his doctorate in 1959 and habilitated in 1962 (Russian doctorate). From 1963 he headed the laboratory for biosynthesis of nucleic acids at the Institute for Molecular Biology of the Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he founded the Institute of Biology of Genes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and became its director.

Georgiev discovered a new type of RNA in eukaryotes in 1961 , the nuclear RNA, also known as pre-mRNA (also proposed by him because he saw it as a precursor of messenger RNA). In 1964 he localized these in cell components, which he called informosomes ( polysomes ). In 1969 he discovered transposons in Drosophila and saw them as a possible cause of cancer. He examined the structure of the core matrix using an electron microscope .

In 1970 he became a corresponding and in 1987 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1976 he received the Lenin Prize and in 1983 the State Prize of the USSR and in 1996 that of the Russian Federation. He is EMBO member, member of the Leopoldina , the Spanish and Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 2009 he was awarded the Engelhardt Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

His son Paul Georgievich Georgiev is also a member of the academy and a molecular biologist.

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  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Georgii P. Georgiev at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Georgiev, Georgi Pavlovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian molecular biologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad