Yuri Anatolyevich Ovchinnikov

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Yuri Anatoljewitsch Ovtschinnikow ( Russian Юрий Анатольевич Овчинников ; born August 2, 1934 in Moscow ; † February 17, 1988 ibid) was a Soviet biochemist .

Yuri Ovtschinnikow studied chemistry at Lomonosov University with a degree in 1957, received his doctorate in 1961 and qualified as a professor in 1966. From 1960 he was at the Institute for Chemical Natural Products of the Academy of Sciences (later Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry), whose director he became in 1970. 1972 Professor at Lomonosov University.

He investigated the structure and effect as well as the synthesis of a number of biologically active substances, including antibiotics ( gramicidin ), enzymes and membrane proteins. Ovtschinnikow and developed a mass spectrometric method for the sequence analysis of peptides in the 1960s. So he found u. a. the structure of transaminases (with Alexander E. Braunstein ). He developed a synthesis method for polypeptides with polymer carriers. Ovchinnikov also conducted research in the field of biological weapons .

In 1973 he became a member of the Leopoldina , in 1976 a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and in 1970 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Since 1977 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Yuri Ovchinnikov received the following awards: Order of Lenin (1975, 1984), Lenin Prize (1978), Hero of Socialist Labor (1981), State Prize of the USSR (1982), Order of the Red Labor Banner (1988).

literature

  • Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Yuri A. Ovchinnikov. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Biography of Yuri Ovchinnikow. Retrieved October 5, 2018 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Ovchinnikow, Yuri Anatoljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Овчинников, Юрий Анатольевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1988
Place of death Moscow