Sabir Junussowitsch Junussow
Sabir Junussowitsch Junussow ( Russian Сабир Юнусович Юнусов ; born March 5 . Jul / 18th March 1909 greg. In Tashkent ; † 28. November 1995 ) was an Uzbek chemist numerous for determining alkaloids known.
Junusow, the son of a bricklayer, was initially a metal worker and after graduating from 1929 a mathematics teacher. From 1930 he studied organic chemistry in Tashkent and at the Chemical-Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Moscow, where he received his doctorate in 1940 (on Papaver alkaloids). He then took part in the defense of Moscow and was wounded in 1941. He then set up the laboratory for alkaloids at the Chemical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences in Tashkent, the later (from 1956) Institute of Plant Substances, of which he became director in 1950 after his habilitation.
Together with colleagues, he analyzed over 4000 plant species from Central Asia and identified over 700 alkaloids and clarified the composition of over 300 of them.
In 1971 he received the Mendeleev gold medal . He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
literature
- Entry in Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists, Harri Deutsch 1989
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Junussow, Sabir Junussowitsch |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Юнусов, Сабир Юнусович (Russian spelling) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uzbek chemist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tashkent |
DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1995 |
Place of death | Tashkent |