Murat Shurynov

Murat Schurynuly Schurynow ( Kazakh Мұрат Жұрынұлы Жұрынов , Russian Мурат Журинович Журинов Murat Schurinowitsch Schurinow ; born December 7, 1941 in Arys , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh chemist. He has been President of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences since October 2003 .

Life

Murat Schurynow was born in Arys in southern Kazakhstan in 1941. He completed a chemistry degree at the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Technology , which he graduated in 1964. In 1970 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology . In 1981 he obtained a doctorate.

Between 1965 and 1967 he worked as a lecturer at the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Technology. Then he was a doctoral student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology until 1970. He then returned to his homeland and was again employed at the Kazakh Institute of Chemical Technology. In 1982 he became Vice Rector of the Karaganda State University . In 1985, Shurynov became director of the Institute for Organic Synthesis and Carbon Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1991 he became president of the newly established Ahmed Yesevi University . He headed the university for four years and then became Minister of Education of Kazakhstan in the cabinet of Prime Minister Aekeschan Qaschygeldin in March 1995 . After two years he replaced him in March 1997 Imanghali Tasmaghambetow on this post. Then he was again President of the Ahmed Yesevi University.

From July 2001 he worked again at the Kazakh Academy of Sciences . Here he was director of the Institute for Fuel, Catalysis and Electrochemistry until 2007. In October 2003 he was elected President of the Academy of Sciences.

Web links

• Biography of Murat Schurynow on zakon.kz (Russian)
• Biography of Murat Shurynov on the website of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Журинов Мурат Журинович. kazinform, accessed on September 6, 2019 (Russian).