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On the Fiftieth Birthday of G. V. Kurdyumov. Problems of 

 Metalworking and the Physics of Metals (Collection 3). 

 Moscow: 1952. 

 Office: Academy of Sciences Ukrainian SSR 



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KURSANOV, ANDREI L'VQVICH (Biochemist) 



A. L. Kursanov, son of L. I. Kursanov, was born November 8, 

 1902. He graduated in 1926 from Moscow University. First he 

 worked at the Scientific Research Institute. From 1929 to 1938 

 he taught at the Moscow K. A. Timiryazev Agricultural Acade- 

 my. Beginning in 1935 he was also at the A. N. Bakh Institute 

 of Biochemistry. He started teaching at Moscow University in 

 1944. In 1952 Kursanov was made Director of the Timiryazev 

 Institute of Plant Physiology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sci- 

 ences. He was elected in 1946, a Corresponding Member of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and in 1953, an Academician. 



Kursanov' s investigations are in plant metabolism. He 

 ascertained the dependence between assimilation of carbon di- 

 oxide and emission of high polymer substances from leaves, 

 studied the action of enzymes in a living plant, and investigated 

 the process of assimilation of carbon dioxide by soils through 

 a root system. From 1940 Kursanov conducted investigation of 

 tanning substances of the tea leaf, important in control of tea 

 production. 



Kursanov is currently Chairman of the Scientific Council of 

 Exhibitions. 



As of 1961, Kursanov was a Member of the Presidium of the 

 U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 Bibliography: 



Reversible Action of Enzymes in the Living Plant Cell. 



Moscow-Leningrad: 1940. 



Synthesis and Transformation of Tanning Substances in 



Tea Leaves. (Bakh Studies #7) Moscow: 1952. 



Movement of organic substances in the plant. Botan. Zhur., 



1952, #5. 



Biological synthesis of disaccharides in Successes of Bio- 

 logical Chemistry, _2. Moscow: 1954. 



with others. On the possibility of Carbonates. Doklady 



Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1951, 79, #4. 



with B. B. Vartapetyan . Participation of oxygen of water 



and the oxygen of the atmosphere in the respiration of plants. 



Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1955, 104, #2. 



